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We present a new, all-sky quasar catalog, Quaia, that samples the largest comoving volume of any existing spectroscopic quasar sample. The catalog draws on the 6,649,162 quasar candidates identified by the Gaia mission that have redshift…

Understanding the formation and evolution of the cosmic web of galaxies is a fundamental goal of cosmology, using various tracers of the cosmic large-scale structure at an ever wider range of redshifts. Our principal aim is to advance the…

Making use of strong correlations between closely separated multiple or double sources and photometric and astrometric metadata in Gaia EDR3, we generate a catalog of candidate double and multiply imaged lensed quasars and AGNs, comprising…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Valeri V. Makarov , Nathan J. Secrest

The recently released Quaia quasar catalogue, with its broad redshift range and all-sky coverage, enables unprecedented three-dimensional reconstructions of matter across cosmic time. In this work, we apply the field-level inference…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Adam Andrews , Arthur Loureiro , Jens Jasche , Stuart McAlpine , Guilhem Lavaux , Florent Leclercq

This paper is the second in a series, implementing a classification system for Gaia observations of unresolved galaxies. Our goals are to determine spectral classes and estimate intrinsic astrophysical parameters via synthetic templates.…

Aims:The Gaia astrometric survey mission will, as a consequence of its scanning law, obtain low resolution optical (330-1000 nm) spectrophotometry of several million unresolved galaxies brighter than V=22. We present the first steps in a…

Mock catalogues are a crucial tool in the analysis of galaxy surveys data, both for the accurate computation of covariance matrices, and for the optimisation of analysis methodology and validation of data sets. In this paper, we present a…

The Gaia DR3 has provided a large sample of more than 6.6 million quasar candidates with high completeness but low purity. Previous work on the CatNorth quasar candidate catalog has shown that including external multiband data and applying…

We present a catalog of 100,563 unresolved, UV-excess (UVX) quasar candidates to g=21 from 2099 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release One (DR1) imaging data. Existing spectra of 22,737 sources reveals that 22,191 (97.6%)…

We study the angular clustering of Quaia, a Gaia- and unWISE-based catalog of over a million quasars with an exceptionally well-defined selection function. With it, we derive cosmology constraints from the amplitude and growth of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 David Alonso , Giulio Fabbian , Kate Storey-Fisher , Anna-Christina Eilers , Carlos García-García , David W. Hogg , Hans-Walter Rix

The advent of massive broad-band photometric surveys enabled photometric redshift estimates for unprecedented numbers of galaxies and quasars. These estimates can be improved using better algorithms or by obtaining complementary data such…

We present a catalog of continuum and emission line properties for 750,414 broad-line quasars included in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 quasar catalog (DR16Q), measured from optical spectroscopy. These quasars cover broad…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Qiaoya Wu , Yue Shen

We measure the two-point correlation function of a uniformly selected, all-sky sample of $\sim$1.3 million quasars with magnitudes $G\leq20.5$ from the Gaia--unWISE Quasar Catalog (Quaia) over the redshift range $0 \leq z \leq 4$ to trace…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-24 Mariona Giner Mascarell , Anna-Christina Eilers , Kate Storey-Fisher

Cosmological models and their parameters are widely debated because of theoretical and observational mismatches of the standard cosmological model, especially the current discrepancy between the value of the Hubble constant, $H_{0}$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Aleksander Łukasz Lenart , Giada Bargiacchi , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Shigehiro Nagataki , Salvatore Capozziello

The identification of physically associated kiloparsec-scale quasar pairs is important for understanding galaxy evolution, the growth of supermassive black holes, and their co-evolution with host galaxies. However, their rarity and the high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Xingyu Zhu , Qihang Chen , Liang Jing , Zhuojun Deng , Jun-Qing Xia , Yanxia Zhang , Jianghua Wu

Determining the Hubble constant tension requires alternative strategies, and multiply imaged quasars, with their intermediate redshifts, can potentially be used in this regard. We provide a currently complete catalogue of spectroscopically…

We use the full-sky ray-tracing weak lensing simulations to generate 2268 mock catalogues for the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey first-year shear catalogue. Our mock catalogues take into account various effects as in the real data:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Masahiro Takada , Ryuichi Takahashi , Hironao Miyatake

We present the unWISE Catalog, containing the positions and fluxes of roughly two billion objects observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) over the full sky. The unWISE Catalog has two advantages over the existing WISE…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Edward F. Schlafly , Aaron M. Meisner , Gregory M. Green
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