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We use the Hubble Space Telescope to analyse the extended [O III] 5007A emission in seven bright radio-quiet type 1 quasars (QSO1s), focusing on the morphology and physical conditions of their extended Narrow-Line Regions (NLRs). We find…

We obtain a new sample of 1192 Type I quasars with the UV-optical, radio and X-ray wavebands coverage by combining \citet{Huang2022} and other matching data of SDSS-DR16 with FIRST, XMM-Newton, and Chandra Source Catalog, and a sample of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-17 L. Huang , Z. Y. Tu , N. Chang , F. F. Song , F. He , X. Y. Fu

We report the discovery of a bright blue quasar: SDSS J022218.03-062511.1. This object was discovered spectroscopically while searching for hot white dwarfs that may be used as calibration sources for large sky surveys such as the Dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-19 Mees B. Fix , J. Allyn Smith , Douglas L. Tucker , William Wester , James Annis

The 100,000 spectra from the 2 degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) in the 100k Public Data Release represent the largest single compilation of galaxy spectra available. By virtue of its sheer size and the properties of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Darren S. Madgwick , Paul C. Hewett , Daniel J. Mortlock , Ofer Lahav

A new version of the Optical Characteristics of Astrometric Radio Sources (OCARS) catalog is presented. This compiled catalog includes radio sources observed in different VLBI programs and experiments that result in source position…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-29 Zinovy Malkin

We present high resolution (arcsecond or better) observations made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array of 123 radio-loud quasars with redshifts in the range $2.5 \leq z \leq 5.28$ that form a complete flux limited sample ($\geq 70$ mJy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-19 Doug B. Gobeille , John F. C. Wardle , C. C. Cheung

We have observed a sample of 15 and 8 quasars with redshifts between 0.11 and 0.87 (mean value 0.38) in the J and K' bands respectively. Eleven of the quasars were previously known to be associated with extended emission line regions. After…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Marquez , F. Durret , P. Petitjean

Lensed quasars are powerful probes of cosmology, the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, and the distribution of dark matter. We cross-match 1,724 previously identified candidates from KiDS, HSC, and the DESI…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-05 Zizhao He , Qihang Chen , Xiaosheng Huang , Christopher J. Storfer , Shen Li , Nan Li

We study the spectral energy distributions and evolution of a large sample of optically selected quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) that were observed in 323 Chandra images analyzed by the Chandra Multiwavelength Project…

Quasi--stellar objects (quasars) located behind nearby galaxies provide an excellent absolute reference system for astrometric studies, but they are difficult to identify because of fore- and background contamination. Deep wide--field, high…

Radio-bright, jetted quasars at $z>5$ serve as unique laboratories for studying supermassive black hole activity in the early Universe. In this work, we present a sample of high-$z$ jetted quasars selected from the combination of the radio…

We present the North Galactic Cap sample of the Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey (ELQS-N), which targets quasars with $M_{1450}<-27$ at $2.8 \leq z < 5$ in an area of $\sim7600\,\rm{deg}^2$ of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) footprint…

We report the discovery of five gravitationally lensed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). All five systems are selected as two-image lensed quasar candidates from a sample of high-redshift (z>2.2) SDSS quasars. We confirmed…

We have designed the Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey (ELQS) to provide a highly complete census of unobscured UV-bright quasars during the cosmic noon, $z=2.8-5.0$. Here we report the discovery of 70 new quasars in the ELQS South Galactic…

This manuscript presents information for all supernovae discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) during 2015, its second full year of operations. The same information is presented for bright ($m_V\leq17$),…

The catalogue lists coordinates, apparent magnitudes, orbital parameters, and stellar parameters of the components and other characteristc properties of 472 cataclysmic binaries, 71 low-mass X-ray binaries and 113 related objects with known…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Ritter , U. Kolb

We report on discovery results from a quasar lens search in the ATLAS public footprint, extending quasar lens searches to a regime without $u-$band or fiber-spectroscopic information, using a combination of data mining techniques on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 A. Agnello , P. L. Schechter , N. D. Morgan , T. Treu , C. Grillo , D. Malesani , T. Anguita , Y. Apostolovski , C. E. Rusu , V. Motta , K. Rojas , B. Chehade , T. Shanks

We describe further results of a program aimed to yield ~10^4 fully characterized optical identifications of ROSAT X-ray sources. Our program employs X-ray data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS), and both optical imaging and…

We report on Chandra observations of a sample of 11 optically luminous (Mb<-28.5) quasars at z=3.96-4.55 selected from the Palomar Digital Sky Survey and the Automatic Plate Measuring Facility Survey. These are among the most luminous z>4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Vignali , W. N. Brandt , D. P. Schneider , S. Kaspi