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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 6.

Upper row and lower left panels show the distribution of the angular offsets between the SDSS positions and those of the FIRST, ROSAT, and 2MASS coordinates, respectively. The matching radii for the surveys were 2 farcs0 (FIRST), 30 farcs0 ( ROSAT), and 2 farcs0 (2MASS). The smooth curves in each of these panels is the expected distribution for a set of matches if the offsets between the objects are described by a Rayleigh distribution; the dispersions of the fit are given in each panel. Only points with separations of less than 1 farcs0 were used in fitting the Rayleigh distribution in the FIRST and 2MASS matching. In the 2MASS case, only points that were actual matches to the published 2MASS catalog are displayed. The Rayleigh distribution is a poor fit to the FIRST and 2MASS matches, as both data sets have a much higher than expected number of matches at radii larger than ≈0 farcs5. The lower right panel displays the cumulative number of DR7 quasars as a function of time; the observations occurred between 2000 February and 2008 July. The roughly periodic structure in the curve is produced by the yearly summer maintenance schedule and, late in the survey, the limited number of quasar observations during the Fall once that portion of the Legacy Survey spectroscopy was completed.

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