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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. III. Third Data Release

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Donald P. Schneider1, Patrick B. Hall2,3, Gordon T. Richards3, Daniel E. Vanden Berk1, Scott F. Anderson4, Xiaohui Fan5, Sebastian Jester6, Chris Stoughton6, Michael A. Strauss3, Mark SubbaRao7,8, W. N. Brandt1, James E. Gunn3, Brian Yanny6, Neta A. Bahcall3, J. C. Barentine9, Michael R. Blanton10, William N. Boroski6, Howard J. Brewington9, J. Brinkmann9, Robert Brunner11, István Csabai12, Mamoru Doi13, Daniel J. Eisenstein5, Joshua A. Frieman7, Masataka Fukugita14,15, Jim Gray16, Michael Harvanek9, Timothy M. Heckman17, Željko Ivezić4, Stephen Kent6, S. J. Kleinman9, Gillian R. Knapp3, Richard G. Kron6,7, Jurek Krzesinski9,18, Daniel C. Long9, Jon Loveday19, Robert H. Lupton3, Bruce Margon20, Jeffrey A. Munn21, Eric H. Neilsen9, Heidi Jo Newberg22, Peter R. Newman9, R. C. Nichol23, Atsuko Nitta9, Jeffrey R. Pier21, Constance M. Rockosi24, David H. Saxe15, David J. Schlegel3,25, Stephanie A. Snedden9, Alexander S. Szalay17, Aniruddha R. Thakar17, Alan Uomoto26, Wolfgang Voges27 and Donald G. York7,28

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We present the third edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 46,420 objects in the SDSS Third Data Release that have luminosities larger than Mi = -22 (in a cosmology with H0 = 70 km s-1 Mpc-1, ΩM = 0.3, and ΩΛ = 0.7), have at least one emission line with FWHM larger than 1000 km s-1 or are unambiguously broad absorption line quasars, are fainter than i = 15.0, and have highly reliable redshifts. The area covered by the catalog is ≈4188 deg2. The quasar redshifts range from 0.08 to 5.41, with a median value of 1.47; the high-redshift sample includes 520 quasars at redshifts greater than 4, of which 17 are at redshifts greater than 5. For each object the catalog presents positions accurate to better than 0farcs2 rms per coordinate, five-band (ugriz) CCD-based photometry with typical accuracy of 0.03 mag, and information on the morphology and selection method. The catalog also contains radio, near-infrared, and X-ray emission properties of the quasars, when available, from other large-area surveys. The calibrated digital spectra cover the wavelength region 3800–9200 Å at a spectral resolution of simeq2000; the spectra can be retrieved from the public database using the information provided in the catalog. A total of 44,221 objects in the catalog were discovered by the SDSS; 28,400 of the SDSS discoveries are reported here for the first time.


Keywords

catalogs; quasars: general; surveys


Dates

Issue 2 (2005 August)

Received 2004 December 23, accepted for publication 2005 March 28



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