The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. IV. Fifth Data Release

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Donald P. Schneider et al. 2007 The Astronomical Journal 134 102 doi:10.1086/518474

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. IV. Fifth Data Release

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Donald P. Schneider¹, Patrick B. Hall², Gordon T. Richards^3,4, Michael A. Strauss⁵, Daniel E. Vanden Berk¹, Scott F. Anderson⁶, W. N. Brandt¹, Xiaohui Fan⁷, Sebastian Jester^8,9, Jim Gray¹⁰, James E. Gunn⁵, Mark U. SubbaRao¹¹, Anirudda R. Thakar³, Chris Stoughton¹², Alexander S. Szalay³, Brian Yanny¹², Donald G. York^13,14, Neta A. Bahcall⁵, J. Barentine¹⁵, Michael R. Blanton¹⁶, Howard Brewington¹⁵, J. Brinkmann¹⁵, Robert J. Brunner¹⁷, Francisco J. Castander¹⁸, István Csabai¹⁹, Joshua A. Frieman^12,13,20, Masataka Fukugita²¹, Michael Harvanek¹⁵, David W. Hogg¹⁶, Željko Ivezić⁶, Stephen M. Kent^12,13, S. J. Kleinman¹⁵, G. R. Knapp⁵, Richard G. Kron^12,13, Jurek Krzesiński²², Daniel C. Long¹⁵, Robert H. Lupton⁵, Atsuko Nitta²³, Jeffrey R. Pier²⁴, David H. Saxe²⁵, Yue Shen⁵, Stephanie A. Snedden¹⁵, David H. Weinberg²⁶ and Jian Wu¹

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¹ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA
² Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2686, USA
⁴ Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
⁵ Princeton University Observatory, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
⁶ Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
⁷ Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
⁸ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
⁹ Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
¹⁰ Microsoft Research, 301 Howard Street, No. 830, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
¹¹ University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; and Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, 1300 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
¹² Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
¹³ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
¹⁴ Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
¹⁵ Apache Point Observatory, P.O. Box 59, Sunspot, NM 88349, USA
¹⁶ Department of Physics, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
¹⁷ Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801-3080, USA
¹⁸ Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (CSIC-IEEC), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
¹⁹ Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Eötvös University, Budapest, Postafiók 32, H-1518 Budapest, Hungary
²⁰ Center for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
²¹ Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
²² Mount Suhora Observatory, Krakow Pedagogical University, Ulica Podchorazych 2, 30-084 Krakow, Poland
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²⁶ Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, 140 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1173, USA

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We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previous edition. The catalog consists of the objects in the SDSS Fifth Data Release that have luminosities larger than M_i = -22.0 (in a cosmology with H₀ = 70 km s^-1 Mpc^-1, Ω_M = 0.3, and Ω_Λ = 0.7), have at least one emission line with FWHM larger than 1000 km s^-1 or have interesting/complex absorption features, are fainter than i ≈ 15.0, and have highly reliable redshifts. The area covered by the catalog is ≈5740 deg². The quasar redshifts range from 0.08 to 5.41, with a median value of 1.48; the catalog includes 891 quasars at redshifts greater than 4, of which 36 are at redshifts greater than 5. Approximately half of the catalog quasars have i < 19; nearly all have i < 21. For each object the catalog presents positions accurate to better than 0.2'' 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 basic 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 simeq 2000; the spectra can be retrieved from the public database using the information provided in the catalog. The average SDSS colors of quasars as a function of redshift, derived from the catalog entries, are presented in tabular form. Approximately 96% of the objects in the catalog were discovered by the SDSS.

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