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The Million Quasars (Milliquas) Catalogue, v6.4

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2019-12-13 v1

Abstract

Announcing the release v6.4 of the Milliquas (Million Quasars) quasar catalogue which presents all published quasars to 11 December 2019, including SDSS-DR16. Its totals are 757,991 type-I QSOs/AGN and approx 1.1M high-confidence (80%+ likelihood) quasar candidates from SDSS-based & AllWISE photometric quasar catalogs, plus all-sky radio/X-ray associated candidates available only here. Type-II and Bl Lac objects are also included, plus candidates/galaxies with double radio lobes (so calculated), bringing the total count to 1,968,377. Gaia-DR2 astrometry is given for most objects. The catalogue is available on its home page and on NASA HEASARC.

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@article{arxiv.1912.05614,
  title  = {The Million Quasars (Milliquas) Catalogue, v6.4},
  author = {Eric W. Flesch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.05614},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Announcement only, 6 pages. Journal publication of Milliquas awaiting completion of SDSS-IV