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We present new and archival Chandra snapshot (10 ks each) observations of 15 optically identified (from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS) Type 2 quasars at z=0.40-0.73. When combined with existing X-ray data, this work provides complete…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Vignali , D. M. Alexander , R. Gilli , F. Pozzi

In this paper we present the first results of a deep spectroscopic survey of faint quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, a deep survey carried out by repeatedly imaging a 270 deg^2 area. Quasar candidates were…

This paper documents the sixteenth data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of data from the southern hemisphere survey of the Apache Point…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-08 Romina Ahumada , Carlos Allende Prieto , Andres Almeida , Friedrich Anders , Scott F. Anderson , Brett H. Andrews , Borja Anguiano , Riccardo Arcodia , Eric Armengaud , Marie Aubert , Santiago Avila , Vladimir Avila-Reese , Carles Badenes , Christophe Balland , Kat Barger , Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros , Sarbani Basu , Julian Bautista , Rachael L. Beaton , Timothy C. Beers , B. Izamar T. Benavides , Chad F. Bender , Mariangela Bernardi , Matthew Bershady , Florian Beutler , Christian Moni Bidin , Jonathan Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Guillermo A. Blanc , Michael R. Blanton , Mederic Boquien , Jura Borissova , Jo Bovy , W. N. Brandt , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , Martin Bureau , Adam Burgasser , Etienne Burtin , Mariana Cano-Diaz , Raffaella Capasso , Michele Cappellari , Ricardo Carrera , Solene Chabanier , William Chaplin , Michael Chapman , Brian Cherinka , Cristina Chiappini , Peter Doohyun Choi , S. Drew Chojnowski , Haeun Chung , Nicolas Clerc , Damien Coffey , Julia M. Comerford , Johan Comparat , Luiz da Costa , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Kevin Covey , Jeffrey D. Crane , Katia Cunha , Gabriele da Silva Ilha , Yu Sophia Dai , Sanna B. Damsted , Jeremy Darling , James W. Davidson , Roger Davies , Kyle Dawson , Nikhil De , Axel de la Macorra , Nathan De Lee , Anna Barbara de Andrade Queiroz , Alice Deconto Machado , Sylvain de la Torre , Flavia Dell'Agli , Helion du Mas des Bourboux , Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic , Sean Dillon , John Donor , Niv Drory , Chris Duckworth , Tom Dwelly , Garrett Ebelke , Sarah Eftekharzadeh , Arthur Davis Eigenbrot , Yvonne P. Elsworth , Mike Eracleous , Ghazaleh Erfanianfar , Stephanie Escoffier , Xiaohui Fan , Emily Farr , Jose G. Fernandez-Trincado , Diane Feuillet , Alexis Finoguenov , Patricia Fofie , Amelia Fraser-McKelvie , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Sebastien Fromenteau , Hai Fu , Lluis Galbany , Rafael A. Garcia , D. A. Garcia-Hernandez , Luis Alberto Garma Oehmichen , Junqiang Ge , Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia , Doug Geisler , Joseph Gelfand , Julian Goddy , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Kathleen Grabowski , Paul Green , Catherine J. Grier , Hong Guo , Julien Guy , Paul Harding , Sten Hasselquist , Adam James Hawken , Christian R. Hayes , Fred Hearty , S. Hekker , David W. Hogg , Jon Holtzman , Danny Horta , Jiamin Hou , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Daniel Huber , Jason A. S. Hunt , J. Ider Chitham , Julie Imig , Mariana Jaber , Camilo Eduardo Jimenez Angel , Jennifer A. Johnson , Amy M. Jones , Henrik Jonsson , Eric Jullo , Yerim Kim , Karen Kinemuchi , Charles C. Kirkpatrick , George W. Kite , Mark Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , Juna A. Kollmeier , Hui Kong , Marina Kounkel , Dhanesh Krishnarao , Ivan Lacerna , Ting-Wen Lan , Richard R. Lane , David R. Law , Henry W. Leung , Hannah Lewis , Cheng Li , Jianhui Lian , Lihwai Lin , Dan Long , Penelope Longa-Pena , Britt Lundgren , Brad W. Lyke , J. Ted Mackereth , Chelsea L. MacLeod , Steven R. Majewski , Arturo Manchado , Claudia Maraston , Paul Martini , Thomas Masseron , Karen L. Masters , Savita Mathur , Richard M. McDermid , Andrea Merloni , Michael Merrifield , Szabolcs Meszaros , Andrea Miglio , Dante Minniti , Rebecca Minsley , Takamitsu Miyaji , Faizan Gohar Mohammad , Benoit Mosser , Eva-Maria Mueller , Demitri Muna , Andrea Munoz-Gutierrez , Adam D. Myers , Seshadri Nadathur , Preethi Nair , Kirpal Nandra , Janaina Correa do Nascimento , Rebecca Jean Nevin , Jeffrey A. Newman , David L. Nidever , Christian Nitschelm , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Julia E. O'Connell , Matthew D Olmstead , Daniel Oravetz , Audrey Oravetz , Yeisson Osorio , Zachary J. Pace , Nelson Padilla , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Pedro A. Palicio , Hsi-An Pan , Kaike Pan , James Parker , Romain Paviot , Sebastien Peirani , Karla Pena Ramrez , Samantha Penny , Will J. Percival , Ismael Perez-Fournon , Ignasi Perez-Rafols , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , Marc Pinsonneault , Vijith Jacob Poovelil , Joshua Tyler Povick , Abhishek Prakash , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Anand Raichoor , Amy Ray , Sandro Barboza Rembold , Mehdi Rezaie , Rogemar A. Riffel , Rogerio Riffel , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , A. Roman-Lopes , Carlos Roman-Zuniga , Benjamin Rose , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Kate Rowlands , Kate H. R. Rubin , Mara Salvato , Ariel G. Sanchez , Laura Sanchez-Menguiano , Jose R. Sanchez-Gallego , Conor Sayres , Adam Schaefer , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Jaderson S. Schimoia , Edward Schlafly , David Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , Axel Schwope , Hee-Jong Seo , Aldo Serenelli , Arman Shafieloo , Shoaib Jamal Shamsi , Zhengyi Shao , Shiyin Shen , Matthew Shetrone , Raphael Shirley , Victor Silva Aguirre , Joshua D. Simon , M. F. Skrutskie , Anze Slosar , Rebecca Smethurst , Jennifer Sobeck , Bernardo Cervantes Sodi , Diogo Souto , David V. Stark , Keivan G. Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Dennis Stello , Julianna Stermer , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann , Alina Streblyanska , Guy S. Stringfellow , Amelia Stutz , Genaro Suarez , Jing Sun , Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , Michael S. Talbot , Jamie Tayar , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Riley Theriault , Daniel Thomas , Zak C. Thomas , Jeremy Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Hector Hernandez Toledo , Christy A. Tremonti , Nicholas W. Troup , Sarah Tuttle , Eduardo Unda-Sanzana , Marica Valentini , Jaime Vargas-Gonzalez , Mariana Vargas-Magana , Jose Antonio Vazquez-Mata , M. Vivek , David Wake , Yuting Wang , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Anne-Marie Weijmans , Vivienne Wild , John C. Wilson , Robert F. Wilson , Nathan Wolthuis , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Renbin Yan , Meng Yang , Christophe Yeche , Olga Zamora , Pauline Zarrouk , Gail Zasowski , Kai Zhang , Cheng Zhao , Gongbo Zhao , Zheng Zheng , Zheng Zheng , Guangtun Zhu , Hu Zou

High-redshift quasars are important tracers of structure and evolution in the early universe. However, they are very rare and difficult to find when using color selection because of contamination from late-type dwarfs. High-redshift quasar…

We have assembled absorption systems by visually identifying $C~IV\lambda\lambda1548,1551$ absorption doublets in the quasar spectra of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) one by one. This paper is the first of the series…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-20 Zhi-Fu Chen , Yi-Ping Qin , Cai-Juan Pan , Wei-Rong Huang , Ming Qin , Ha-Na Wu

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 square degrees of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of galaxies, quasars, stars and calibrating blank…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-27 The SDSS collaboration , Kevork Abazajian

SPIDERS is the spectroscopic follow-up effort of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) project for the identification of X-ray selected galaxy clusters. We present our catalogue of 2740 visually inspected galaxy clusters as a part of…

We present a catalog of 792 DR5 SDSS quasars with optical spectra that have been observed serendipitously in the X-rays with the \emph{XMM-Newton}. These quasars cover a redshift range of z = 0.11 - 5.41 and a magnitude range of i =…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Young , M. Elvis , G. Risaliti

We present a new database of absorption and emission-line measurements based on the entire spectral atlas from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) 7th data release of galaxies within a redshift of 0.2. Our work makes use of the publicly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Kyuseok Oh , Marc Sarzi , Kevin Schawinski , Sukyoung K. Yi

We present a catalog of nearby (z $\leq$ 0.5) quasars with significant features of post-starburst stellar populations in their optical spectra, so-called post-starburst quasars, or PSQs. After carefully decomposing spectra from the Sloan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-12 P. Wei , Y. Gu , M. Brotherton , Y. Shi , Y. M. Chen

Studies of the most luminous quasars at high redshift directly probe the evolution of the most massive black holes in the early Universe and their connection to massive galaxy formation. However, extremely luminous quasars at high redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Jan-Torge Schindler , Xiaohui Fan , Ian. D. McGreer , Qian Yang , Jin Wu , Linhua Jiang , Richard Green

We investigate the large-scale clustering of the final spectroscopic sample of quasars from the recently completed extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). The sample contains $343708$ objects in the redshift range…

We present measurements of the local primordial non-Gaussianity parameter \fNLloc from the clustering of 343,708 quasars with redshifts 0.8 < z < 2.2 distributed over 4808 square degrees from the final data release (DR16) of the extended…

Announcing the final release, v8, of the Milliquas (Million Quasars) quasar catalogue which presents all published quasars to 30 June 2023, including quasars from the first releases of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-25 Eric Wim Flesch

In current and future surveys, quasars play a key role. The new data will extend our knowledge of the Universe as it will be used to better constrain the cosmological model at redshift $z>1$ via baryon acoustic oscillation and redshift…

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years of operation (July 2014-July 2017). This is the third data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 D. S. Aguado , Romina Ahumada , Andres Almeida , Scott F. Anderson , Brett H. Andrews , Borja Anguiano , Erik Aquino Ortiz , Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca , Maria Argudo-Fernandez , Marie Aubert , Vladimir Avila-Reese , Carles Badenes , Sandro Barboza Rembold , Kat Barger , Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros , Dominic Bates , Julian Bautista , Rachael L. Beaton , Timothy C. Beers , Francesco Belfiore , Mariangela Bernardi , Matthew Bershady , Florian Beutler , Jonathan Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Guillermo A. Blanc , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Mederic Boquien , Jura Borissova , Jo Bovy , William Nielsen Brandt , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , Adam Burgasser , Nell Byler , Mariana Cano Diaz , Michele Cappellari , Ricardo Carrera , Bernardo Cervantes Sodi , Yanping Chen , Brian Cherinka , Peter Doohyun Choi , Haeun Chung , Damien Coffey , Julia M. Comerford , Johan Comparat , Kevin Covey , Gabriele da Silva Ilha , Luiz da Costa , Yu Sophia Dai , Guillermo Damke , Jeremy Darling , Roger Davies , Kyle Dawson , Victoria de Sainte Agathe , Alice Deconto Machado , Agnese Del Moro , Nathan De Lee , Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic , Helena Dominguez Sanchez , John Donor , Niv Drory , Helion du Mas des Bourboux , Chris Duckworth , Tom Dwelly , Garrett Ebelke , Eric Emsellem , Stephanie Escoffier , Jose G. Fernandez-Trincado , Diane Feuillet , Johanna-Laina Fischer , Scott W. Fleming , Amelia Fraser-McKelvie , Gordon Freischlad , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Hai Fu , Lluis Galbany , Rafael Garcia-Dias , D. A. Garcia-Hernandez , Luis Alberto Garma Oehmichen , Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia , Hector Gil-Marin , Kathleen Grabowski , Meng Gu , Hong Guo , Jaewon Ha , Emily Harrington , Sten Hasselquist , Christian R. Hayes , Fred Hearty , Hector Hernandez Toledo , Harry Hicks , David W. Hogg , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Jon A. Holtzman , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Jason A. S. Hunt , Ho Seong Hwang , Hector J. Ibarra-Medel , Camilo Eduardo Jimenez Angel , Jennifer Johnson , Amy Jones , Henrik Jonsson , Karen Kinemuchi , Juna Kollmeier , Coleman Krawczyk , Kathryn Kreckel , Sandor Kruk , Ivan Lacerna , Ting-Wen Lan , Richard R. Lane , David R. Law , Young-Bae Lee , Cheng Li , Jianhui Lian , Lihwai Lin , Yen-Ting Lin , Chris Lintott , Dan Long , Penelope Longa-Pena , J. Ted Mackereth , Axel de la Macorra , Steven R. Majewski , Olena Malanushenko , Arturo Manchado , Claudia Maraston , Vivek Mariappan , Mariarosa Marinelli , Rui Marques-Chaves , Thomas Masseron , Karen L. Masters , Richard M. McDermid , Nicolas Medina Pena , Sofia Meneses-Goytia , Andrea Merloni , Michael Merrifield , Szabolcs Meszaros , Dante Minniti , Rebecca Minsley , Demitri Muna , Adam D. Myers , Preethi Nair , Janaina Correa do Nascimento , Jeffrey A. Newman , Christian Nitschelm , Matthew D Olmstead , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel Oravetz , Rene A. Ortega Minakata , Zach Pace , Nelson Padilla , Pedro A. Palicio , Kaike Pan , Hsi-An Pan , Taniya Parikh , James Parker , Sebastien Peirani , Samantha Penny , Will J. Percival , Ismael Perez-Fournon , Thomas Peterken , Marc Pinsonneault , Abhishek Prakash , Jordan Raddick , Anand Raichoor , Rogemar A. Riffel , Rogerio Riffel , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Alexandre Roman-Lopes , Benjamin Rose , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Kate Rowlands , Kate H. R. Rubin , Sebastian F. Sanchez , Jose R. Sanchez-Gallego , Conor Sayres , Adam Schaefer , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Jaderson S. Schimoia , Edward Schlafly , David Schlegel , Donald Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , Hee-Jong Seo , Shoaib J. Shamsi , Zhengyi Shao , Shiyin Shen , Shravan Shetty , Gregory Simonian , Rebecca Smethurst , Jennifer Sobeck , Barbara J. Souter , Ashley Spindler , David V. Stark , Keivan G. Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann , Guy S. Stringfellow , Genaro Suarez , Jing Sun , Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , Michael S. Talbot , Jamie Tayar , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Patricia Tissera , Rita Tojeiro , Nicholas W. Troup , Eduardo Unda-Sanzana , Octavio Valenzuela , Mariana Vargas-Maga na , Jose Antonio Vazquez Mata , David Wake , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Anne-Marie Weijmans , Kyle B. Westfall , Vivienne Wild , John Wilson , Emily Woods , Renbin Yan , Meng Yang , Olga Zamora , Gail Zasowski , Kai Zhang , Zheng Zheng , Zheng Zheng , Guangtun Zhu , Joel C. Zinn , Hu Zou

We present observations of SDSSp J104433.04--012502.2, a luminous quasar at z=5.80 discovered from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) multicolor imaging data. This object was selected as an i'-band dropout object, with i*=21.8 +/- 0.2, z*=19.2…

We present the "C4 Cluster Catalog", a new sample of 748 clusters of galaxies identified in the spectroscopic sample of the Second Data Release (DR2) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The C4 cluster--finding algorithm identifies…