J/A+AS/128/507      The Hamburg Quasar Survey. II. (Engels+ 1998)

The Hamburg Quasar Survey. II. A first list of 121 quasars Engels D., Hagen H.-J., Cordis L., Koehler S., Wisotzki L., Reimers D. <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 128, 507 (1998) + Erratum vol. 131, p. 196> =1998A&AS..128..507E 1998A&AS..128..507E
ADC_Keywords: QSOs ; Redshifts ; Galaxies, spectra Keywords: surveys - quasars: general Abstract: The Hamburg Quasar Survey is a wide-angle objective prism survey for finding bright QSOs in the northern extragalactic sky (|b|>20°; δ>0°). The taking of the prism plates for 567 fields covering this area was completed in 1997. Including direct plates for fields with δ> 20° the plate archive contains now 1871 plates. In this paper we present a first list of 121 quasars, which were verified by slit spectroscopy in the years 1986-1991, while experiments to develop efficient selection techniques were made. The sample contains objects with brightnesses 15≤B≤19.5 and redshifts z≤2.8 collected over various parts of the sky, for which objective prism plates were available at that time. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table2-4.dat 73 122 Names, coordinates, redshift, observing dates, B magnitudes and comments fig4.ps 63 9822 Quasars spectra fig5.ps 63 9230 Quasars spectra fig6.ps 63 10187 Quasars spectra fig7.ps 63 9784 Quasars spectra fig8.ps 63 10114 Quasars spectra fig9.ps 63 9338 Quasars spectra fig10.ps 63 9903 Quasars spectra fig11.ps 63 9185 Quasars spectra fig12.ps 63 9096 Quasars spectra fig13.ps 63 9975 Quasars spectra fig14.ps 63 818 Quasars spectra fig15.ps 65 597 Spectrum of quasar HS 2348+0438 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/A+AS/134/483 : The Hamburg Quasar Survey. III. (Hagen+ 1999) J/A+AS/115/235 : The Hamburg/ESO survey for bright QSOs. II. (Reimers+, 1996) J/A+A/358/77 : The Hamburg/ESO survey for bright QSOs. III (Wisotzki+, 2000) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2-4.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 12 A12 --- Name Object Name 14- 15 I2 h RAh Right ascension (1950) 17- 18 I2 min RAm Right ascension (1950) 20- 23 F4.1 s RAs Right ascension (1950) 25 A1 --- DE- Declination sign 26- 27 I2 deg DEd Declination (1950) 29- 30 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (1950) 32- 33 I2 arcsec DEs Declination (1950) 35- 39 F5.3 --- z Redshift 41- 48 A8 "DD/MM/YY" ObsDate Observing date 50- 53 F4.1 mag Bmag B magnitude 55- 62 A8 --- spFile Name of file (in this directory) containing the spectrum 64- 73 A10 --- Com Comments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: * 16-Jan-1998: First version with 121 quasars. * 02-Jun-1998 (from Dieter Engels): With respect to the printed version the following changes were applied to the tables and figures: The spectrum of the last quasar in table2-4.dat (Table 4 in the paper), HS 2348+0438, was not included in the original Figures. Instead the spectrum of another object, the probable quasar HS 1404+3203, originally not assigned for publication in this paper entered Figure 13. The coordinates of HS 1404+3203 are 14 04 45.5 +32 03 31 (B1950). Its brightness is B=17.8±0.1 and the redshift is z=2.4, provided that the strong emission line at 4130 Angstroem is Ly alpha. The spectrum published requires verification. The total number of quasars presented in this paper is now 122. table2-4.dat was updated accordingly and the spectrum of HS 2348+0438 is provided as separate Postscript file. Acknowledgements: Dieter Engels References: Hagen et al., Paper I. 1995A&AS..111..195H 1995A&AS..111..195H
(End) Patricia Bauer [CDS], Dieter Engels [Hamburger Sternwarte] 02-Jun-1998
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