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We develop an automated technique to measure quasar redshifts in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our technique is an extension of an earlier Gaussian process method for detecting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 Leah Fauber , Ming-Feng Ho , Simeon Bird , Christian R. Shelton , Roman Garnett , Ishita Korde

An extensive sample of M, L and T dwarfs identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been compiled. The sample of 718 dwarfs includes 677 new objects (629 M dwarfs, 48 L dwarfs) together with 41 that have been previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 S. L. Hawley , K. R. Covey , G. R. Knapp , D. A. Golimowski , X. Fan

This paper describes the fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through June 2004. The data release includes five-band photometric data for 180 million objects selected over 6670…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. K. Adelman-McCarthy et al.

We present deep radio observations of the most distant complete quasar sample drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Combining our new data with those from literature we obtain a sample which is ~100 per cent complete down to S_1.4GHz =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Cirasuolo , M. Magliocchetti , G. Gentile , A. Celotti , S. Cristiani , L. Danese

We report the discovery and confirmation of eight new two-image lensed quasars by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. The lenses are SDSSJ0904+1512 (image separation \theta=1"13, source redshift z_s=1.826),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Issha Kayo , Naohisa Inada , Masamune Oguri , Tomoki Morokuma , Patrick B. Hall , Christopher S. Kochanek , Donald P. Schneider

We present a catalog of over 130,000 quasars candidates with NIR photometric properties, with an areal coverage of approximately 1,200 deg^2. This is achieved by matching the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in the optical ugriz bands, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-16 Michael Peth , Nic Ross , Donald Schneider

The potential of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for wide-field variability studies is illustrated using multi-epoch observations for 3,000,000 point sources observed in 700 deg2 of sky, with time spans ranging from 3 hours to 3 years. These…

The results of a large area, ~600 deg^2, K-band flux-limited spectroscopic survey for luminous quasars are presented. The survey utilises the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS) in regions of sky within the Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Natasha Maddox , Paul C. Hewett , Celine Peroux , Daniel B. Nestor , Lutz Wisotzki

We present a model for spectrophotometric calibration errors in observations of quasars from the third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and describe the correction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Daniel Margala , David Kirkby , Kyle Dawson , Stephen Bailey , Michael Blanton , Donald P. Schneider

In a sample of 60 quasars selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with at least six-epoch spectroscopy, we investigate the variability of emission lines and continuum luminosity at various aspects. A strong anti-correlation between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Hengxiao Guo , Minfeng Gu

Difference imaging provides a new way to discover gravitationally lensed quasars because few non-lensed sources will show spatially extended, time variable flux. We test the method on lens candidates in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide a complete imaging and spectroscopic survey of the high-latitude northern sky. The 2D survey will image the sky in five colors and will contain nearly 5 x 107 galaxies to g ~ 23m. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Neta A. Bahcall

The wavelength dependence of atmospheric refraction causes differential chromatic refraction (DCR), whereby objects imaged at different optical/UV wavelengths are observed at slightly different positions in the plane of the detector. Strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-18 Michael C. Kaczmarczik , Gordon T. Richards , Sajjan S. Mehta , David J. Schlegel

We investigated the properties of a sample of red Quasi-stellar Objects (QSOs) using optical, radio, and infrared data. These QSOs were selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) quasar catalog. We only selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-16 An-Li Tsai , Chorng-Yuan Hwang

We have searched in the XMM-Newton public archive for quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) First Data Release (DR1), and found 55 lying in the field of a XMM-Newton observation with exposure times >20 ksec (as of August, 2004).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Risaliti , M. Elvis , ;

We use the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) to study the soft X-ray properties of a homogeneous sample of 46,420 quasars selected from the third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Optical luminosities, both at rest-frame…

We present short \chandra observations of twelve bright (i<18) z_em~1.5 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey chosen to have significantly redder optical colors than most quasars at the same redshift. Of the five quasars with optical…

We present the results of a pilot Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging study of the host galaxies of ten quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project. Probing more than an order of magnitude in BH and…

We obtained medium-resolution spectra of 336 quasar candidates in the COSMOS HST/Treasury field using the MMT 6.5-meter telescope and the Hectospec multi-object spectrograph. Candidates were drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. K. M. Prescott , C. D. Impey , R. J. Cool , N. Z. Scoville