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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. V. Seventh Data Release

  • Authors: Donald P. Schneider, Gordon T. Richards, Patrick B. Hall, Michael A. Strauss, Scott F. Anderson, Todd A. Boroson, Nicholas P. Ross, Yue Shen, W. N. Brandt, Xiaohui Fan, Naohisa Inada, Sebastian Jester, G. R. Knapp, Coleman M. Krawczyk, Anirudda R. Thakar, Daniel E. Vanden Berk, Wolfgang Voges, Brian Yanny, Donald G. York, Neta A. Bahcall, Dmitry Bizyaev, Michael R. Blanton, Howard Brewington, J. Brinkmann, Daniel Eisenstein, Joshua A. Frieman, Masataka Fukugita, Jim Gray, James E. Gunn, Pascale Hibon, Željko Ivezić, Stephen M. Kent, Richard G. Kron, Myung Gyoon Lee, Robert H. Lupton, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Dan Oravetz, K. Pan, Jeffrey R. Pier, Ted N. Price III, David H. Saxe, David J. Schlegel, Audry Simmons, Stephanie A. Snedden, Mark U. SubbaRao, Alexander S. Szalay, and David H. Weinberg

SCHNEIDER et al. 2010 The Astronomical Journal 139 2360.

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Caption: Figure 1.

Sky distribution of the 105,783 quasars in the catalog in J2000 equatorial coordinates. The primary components of the data set are those associated with the Legacy Survey (North Galactic Cap, the large contiguous area, and the South Galactic Cap, three narrow stripes aligned with the Celestial Equator) and SEGUE (the points lying off the stripes in the South Galactic Cap).

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