Quasars in the COSMOS Field | Zendy

M. Prescott | Zendy; C. D. Impey | Zendy; R. J. Cool | Zendy; N. Z. Scoville | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

Quasars in the COSMOS Field

Author(s) -

M. Prescott,

C. D. Impey,

R. J. Cool,

N. Z. Scoville

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

the astrophysical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376

H-Index - 489

eISSN - 1538-4357

pISSN - 0004-637X

DOI - 10.1086/503325

Subject(s) - quasar , physics , astrophysics , redshift , ovv quasar , sky , astronomy , galaxy , supermassive black hole

We obtained medium-resolution spectra of 336 quasar candidates in the COSMOSHST/Treasury field using the MMT 6.5-meter telescope and the Hectospecmulti-object spectrograph. Candidates were drawn from the Sloan Digital SkySurvey (SDSS) DR1 catalog using quasar flags set by the SDSS multi-color quasartarget selection algorithm. In this paper we present our discovery spectra from1.39 square degrees (69.5% of the COSMOS field) and a discussion of theselection method and yields. We confirmed 95 quasars, including at least 2BALs; 80 of these are new quasars that do not appear in previous quasarconfirmation follow-up studies. The candidates additionally included 184compact emission-line galaxies, a third of which are likely Type 2 AGN, and 12stars. The quasars span a range in magnitude of 18.3

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research