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We present multiwaveband observations of a well selected sample of 28 quasars and two radio galaxies with flat radio spectra and strong millimeter wave emission (referred to here as FSRQ's). The observations include multifrequency VLBI…

We present a study of a sample of 223 radio-loud quasars (up to redshift $<$0.3) in order to investigate their spectral properties. Twenty-six of these radio-loud quasars are identified as Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) and fifty-four…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Haritma Gaur , Minfeng Gu , S. Ramya , Hengxiao Guo

In the present work the part of the quasar UV-optical bump within the wavelength range 1210-1450\AA\ was studied with the help of composite spectra compiled from the samples of SDSS DR7 spectra with the similar spectral index…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-07 O. Torbaniuk , G. Ivashchenko , O. Sergijenko

We present a preparatory spectroscopic survey to identify radio-bright, high-redshift quasars for the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS). The candidates have been selected on the basis of a single flux density limit at 1.4 GHz (>200 mJy)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 J. -K. Krogager , N. Gupta , P. Noterdaeme , A. Ranjan , J. P. U. Fynbo , R. Srianand , P. Petitjean , F. Combes , A. Mahabal

We have performed quasi-simultaneous radio flux density measurements at 2.7 and 10 GHz for all PG quasars with radio flux densities between 4-200 mJy. We find that a large fraction of these sources are variable, flat-spectrum quasars. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Heino Falcke , William Sherwood , Alok Patnaik

A sample of 16 quasars selected from the Large Bright Quasar Survey in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.5 has been imaged in the R band with the Planetary Camera on the WFPC2 instrument of the Hubble Space Telescope. The host galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric J. Hooper , Chris D. Impey , Craig B. Foltz

Although radio-quiet quasars (RQQs) constitute >90% of optically-identified quasar samples their radio properties are only poorly understood. In this paper we present the results of a multi-frequency VLA study of 27 low-redshift RQQs. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. J. Kukula , J. S. Dunlop , D. H. Hughes , S. Rawlings

Webster et al (1995) claimed that up to 80% of QSOs may be obscured by dust. They inferred the presence of this dust from the remarkably broad range of B-K optical-infrared colours of a sample of flat-spectrum PKS radio QSOs. If such dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. R. Benn , M. Vigotti , R. Carballo , J. I. Gonzalez-Serrano , S. F. Sanchez

We investigate the X-ray properties of the Parkes sample of flat-spectrum radio sources using data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey and archival pointed PSPC observations. In total, 163 of the 323 sources are detected. For the remaining 160…

We explore the radio properties of powerful (rest-frame luminosity $\gtrsim10^{28}$ W Hz$^{-1}$ at 500 MHz) high-redshift (z > 3.5) quasars. The aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of radio-loud sources at the epoch when…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-02 Alessandro Capetti , Barbara Balmaverde

We calculate simultaneously the radio and optical luminosity evolutions of quasars, and the distribution in radio loudness R defined as the ratio of radio and optical luminosities, using a flux limited data set containing 636 quasars with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Singal , V. Petrosian , A. Lawrence , L. Stawarz

We present spectroscopic measurements for 226 sources from the Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph - Distant Quasar Survey (GNIRS-DQS). Being the largest uniform, homogeneous survey of its kind, it represents a flux-limited sample ($m_{i}$…

This is the third paper in a series aimed at finding high-redshift quasars from five-color (u'g'r'i'z') imaging data taken along the Celestial Equator by the SDSS during its commissioning phase. In this paper, we first present the…

We present the results of an optical spectroscopic survey of a sample of 40 candidate obscured quasars identified on the basis of their mid-infrared emission detected by the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Optical spectra for…

(Abridged). We explore the fraction of radio loud quasars in the eHAQ+GAIA23 sample, which contains quasars from the High A(V) Quasar (HAQ) Survey, the Extended High A(V) Quasar (eHAQ) Survey, and the Gaia quasar survey. All quasars in this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-08 S. Vejlgaard , J. P. U. Fynbo , K. E. Heintz , J. -K. Krogager , P. Møller , S. J. Geier , L. Christensen , G Ma

The spectral indexes distribution of a quasar sample is derived from a far-UV survey. A red average spectrum is found which comes in support of significant evolution of the QSO spectral energy distribution (SED) since $z\approx2.5$.

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 S. Faïsse , B. Milliard

We have built a sample of 74 radio-selected broad absorption line quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 (SDSS DR5) and Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters (FIRST), along with a well matched sample of 74…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Michael A. DiPompeo , Michael S. Brotherton , Carlos De Breuck , Sally Laurent-Muehleisen

Mid-infrared (MIR) quasar spectra exhibit a suite of emission features including high ionization coronal lines from the narrow line region illuminated by the ionizing continuum, broad dust bumps from silicates and graphites, and polycyclic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Allison R. Hill , S. C. Gallagher , R. P. Deo , E. Peeters , Gordon T. Richards

We present the largest sample of giant radio quasars (GRQs), which are defined as having a projected linear size greater than 0.7 Mpc. The sample consists of 272 GRQs, of which 174 are new objects discovered through cross-matching the NRAO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Agnieszka Kuźmicz , Marek Jamrozy

We present the results of a multi-wavelength study of a sample of high-redshift Radio Loud (RL) Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasars. This way we extend to higher redshift previous studies on the radio properties, and broadband optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-12 D. Tuccillo , G. Bruni , M. A. DiPompeo , M. S. Brotherton , A. Pasetto , A. Kraus , J. I. Gonzalez-Serrano , K. -H. Mack