High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data. V. Hobby-Eberly Telescope Observations

Autor: Donald P. Schneider, Xiaohui Fan, Michael A. Strauss, James E. Gunn, Gordon T. Richards, Gary J. Hill, Phillip J. MacQueen, Lawrence W. Ramsey, Mark T. Adams, John A. Booth, Grant M. Hill, G. R. Knapp, Robert H. Lupton, David H. Saxe, Matthew Shetrone, Joseph R. Tufts, Daniel E. Vanden Berk, Marsha J. Wolf, Donald G. York, John E. Anderson, Jr., Scott F. Anderson, Neta A. Bahcall, J. Brinkmann, Robert Brunner, István Csabai, Masataka Fukugita, G. S. Hennessy, Željko Ivezić, Donald Q. Lamb, Jeffrey A. Munn, Aniruddha R. Thakar
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: The Astronomical Journal. 121:1232-1240
ISSN: 0004-6256
Popis: We report the discovery of 27 quasars with redshifts between 3.58 and 4.49. The objects were identified as high-redshift candidates based on their colors in Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning data. The redshifts were confirmed with low resolution spectra obtained at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. The quasars' $i^*$ magnitudes range from 18.55 to 20.97. Nearly 60% of the quasar candidates observed are confirmed spectroscopically as quasars. Two of the objects are Broad Absorption Line quasars, and several other quasars appear to have narrow associated absorption features.
20 pages, 4 figures, AJ accepted
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