NBC Quasar Candidate Catalog

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We present a catalog of 100563 unresolved, UV-excess (UVX) quasar candidates to g=21 from 2099 deg^2^ of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release One (DR1) imaging data. Existing spectra of 22737 sources reveals that 22191 (97.6%) are quasars; accounting for the magnitude dependence of this efficiency, we estimate that 95502 (95.0%) of the objects in the catalog are quasars. Such a high efficiency is unprecedented in broadband surveys of quasars. This "proof-of-concept" sample is designed to be maximally efficient, but still has 94.7% completeness to unresolved, g~<19.5, UVX quasars from the DR1 quasar catalog. This efficient and complete selection is the result of our application of a probability density type analysis to training sets that describe the four-dimensional color distribution of stars and spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the SDSS. Specifically, we use a nonparametric Bayesian classification, based on kernel density estimation, to parameterize the color distribution of astronomical sources - allowing for fast and robust classification. We further supplement the catalog by providing photometric redshifts and matches to FIRST/VLA, ROSAT, and USNO-B sources.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.21550257
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/155/257
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/155/257
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Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/155/257
Provenance
Creator Richards G.T.; Nichol R.C.; Gray A.G.; Brunner R.J.; Lupton R.H.,Vanden Berk D.E.; Chong S.S.; Weinstein M.A.; Schneider D.P.,Anderson S.F.; Munn J.A.; Harris H.C.; Strauss M.A.; Fan X.; Gunn J.E.,Ivezic Z.; York D.G.; Brinkmann J.; Moore A.W.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2005
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy