Table · dataset · 2013
New 2.2<z<3 quasars from SDSS and UKIDSS
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The identification of quasars in the redshift range 2.2<z<3 is known to be very inefficient because the optical colors of such quasars are indistinguishable from those of stars.
Description
Recent studies have proposed using optical variability or near-infrared (near-IR) colors to improve the identification of the missing quasars in this redshift range. Here we present a case study combining both methods.
We select a sample of 70 quasar candidates from variables in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82, which are non-ultraviolet excess sources and have UKIDSS near-IR public data. They are clearly separated into two parts on the Y-K/g-z color-color diagram, and 59 of them meet or lie close to a newly proposed Y-K/g-z selection criterion for z<4 quasars. Of these 59 sources, 44 were previously identified as quasars in SDSS DR7, and 35 of them are quasars at 2.2<z<3.
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We present spectroscopic observations of 14 of 15 remaining quasar candidates using the Bok 2.3m telescope and the MMT 6.5m telescope, and successfully identify all of them as new quasars at z=2.36-2.88. We also apply this method to a sample of 643 variable quasar candidates with SDSS-UKIDSS nine-band photometric data selected from 1875 new quasar candidates in SDSS Stripe 82 given by Butler & Bloom (2011AJ....141...93B) based on the time-series selections, and find that 188 of them are probably new quasars with photometric redshifts at 2.2<z<3.
Our results indicate that the combination of optical variability and optical/near-IR colors is probably the most efficient way to find 2.2<z<3 quasars and is very helpful for constructing a complete quasar sample. We discuss its implications for ongoing and upcoming large optical and near-IR sky surveys.
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Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/142/78 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- ADS 2011AJ....142...78W ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AJ....142...78W ↗
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Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
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- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/aj/142/78 ↗
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Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
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