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- Title
- The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue
- Author(s)
- Croom, Scott M.; Richards, Gordon T.; Shanks, Tom; Boyle, Brian J.; Sharp, Robert G.; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Bridges, Terry; Brunner, Robert J.; Cannon, Russell; Carson, Daniel; Chiu, Kuenley; Colless, Matthew; Couch, Warrick; De Propris, Roberto; Drinkwater, Michael J.; Edge, Alastair; Fine, Stephen; Loveday, Jon; Miller, Lance; Myers, Adam D.; Nichol, Robert C.; Outram, Phil; Pimbblet, Kevin; Roseboom, Isaac; Ross, Nicholas; Schneider, Donald P.; Smith, Allyn; Stoughton, Chris; Strauss, Michael A.; Wake, David
- Abstract
- We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG (luminous red galaxy) and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. This is a deep, 18 < g < 21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at probing in detail the faint end of the broad line active galactic nuclei luminosity distribution at z≲ 2.6 . The candidate QSOs were selected from SDSS photometry and observed spectroscopically with the 2dF spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This sample covers an area of 191.9 deg2 and contains new spectra of 16 326 objects, of which 8764 are QSOs and 7623 are newly discovered [the remainder were previously identified by the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and SDSS]. The full QSO sample (including objects previously observed in the SDSS and 2QZ surveys) contains 12 702 QSOs. The new 2SLAQ spectroscopic data set also contains 2343 Galactic stars, including 362 white dwarfs, and 2924 narrow emission-line galaxies with a median redshift of z= 0.22. We present detailed completeness estimates for the survey, based on modelling of QSO colours, including host-galaxy contributions. This calculation shows that at g≃ 21.85 QSO colours are significantly affected by the presence of a host galaxy up to redshift z∼ 1 in the SDSS ugriz bands. In particular, we see a significant reddening of the objects in g−i towards the fainter g-band magnitudes. This reddening is consistent with the QSO host galaxies being dominated by a stellar population of age at least 2–3 Gyr. The full catalogue, including completeness estimates, is available on-line at http://www.2slaq.info/.
- Publication Type
- Journal article
- Research Centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 392, no. 1 (Jan 2009), pp. 19-44
- Publication Year
- 2009
- FOR Code(s)
- 020103 Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy
- Keyword(s)
- 2dF-SDSS LRG survey; Active galaxies; Catalogues; QSO (2SLAQ) survey; Quasars; SDSS; Seyfert galaxies; Sloan Digital Sky Survey; Surveys; White dwarfs
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Publisher URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14052.x
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2008 Royal Astronomical Society. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive publication is available at www.interscience.wiley.com.
- ISSN
- 0035-8711
- Additional Information
- The authors acknowledge the support of National Science Foundation grant AST06-07634, an Australian Research Council QEII Fellowship and a J G Russell Award from the Australian Academy of Science.
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