The Half Million Quasars (HMQ) Catalogue
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2015-05-20 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
A quasar catalogue is presented with a total of 510764 objects including 424748 type 1 QSOs and 26623 type 1 AGN complete from the literature to 25 January 2015. Also included are 25015 high-confidence SDSS-based photometric quasars with radio/X-ray associations, 1595 BL Lac objects, and 32783 type 2 objects. Each object is displayed with arcsecond-accurate astrometry, red and blue photometry, redshift, citations, and radio and X-ray associations where present. Also, 114 new spectroscopically confirmed quasars are presented.
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@article{arxiv.1502.06303,
title = {The Half Million Quasars (HMQ) Catalogue},
author = {Eric W. Flesch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06303},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
14 pages, 11 tables, 5 figures. Accepted for publication by Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA)