J/AJ/141/105        NIR-matched quasar catalog               (Peth+, 2011)

Near-infrared photometric properties of 130,000 quasars: an SDSS-UKIDSS-matched catalog. Peth M.A., Ross N.P., Schneider D.P. <Astron. J., 141, 105 (2011)> =2011AJ....141..105P 2011AJ....141..105P
ADC_Keywords: Surveys ; QSOs ; Photometry, infrared ; Photometry, SDSS Keywords: catalogs - quasars: general Abstract: We present a catalog of over 130000 quasar candidates with near-infrared (NIR) photometric properties, with an areal coverage of approximately 1200deg2. This is achieved by matching the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in the optical ugriz bands to the UKIRT Infrared Digital Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS) in the NIR YJHK bands. We match the ∼1 million SDSS DR6 Photometric Quasar catalog to Data Release 3 of the UKIDSS LAS (ULAS) and produce a catalog with 130827 objects with detections in one or more NIR bands, of which 74351 objects have optical and K-band detections and 42133 objects have the full nine-band photometry. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table4.dat 359 172186 NIR-matched quasar catalog -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: II/310 : UKIDSS-DR7 Large Area Survey (Lawrence+ 2011) II/314 : UKIDSS-DR8 LAS, GCS and DXS Surveys (Lawrence+ 2012) http://www.sdss.org : SDSS Home Page Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 6 I6 --- Seq [1/172186]+ Internal catalog object number 8- 25 A18 --- Name IAU format object name (JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s) 27- 44 A18 --- SDSS SDSS Database ID 46- 57 A12 --- ULAS ?=-1 UKIDSS/ULAS-DR3 MergedSource Database ID 59- 66 F8.4 deg RAdeg Right Ascension from SDSS (J2000) 68- 74 F7.4 deg DEdeg Declination from SDSS (J2000) 76- 84 F9.4 arcsec dRA ?=-999. RA difference between SDSS & UKIDSS 86- 94 F9.4 arcsec dDE ?=-999. Dec difference between SDSS & UKIDSS 96-102 F7.4 arcsec d [0,1]?=-1 Angular distance between matching SDSS and UKIDSS objects (sqrt[(dA*cos(DE))2+dDE2]) 104-110 F7.4 mag umag SDSS u band PSF magnitude in AB system 112-117 F6.4 mag e_umag Error in umag 119-125 F7.4 mag gmag SDSS g band PSF magnitude in AB system 127-132 F6.4 mag e_gmag Error in gmag 134-140 F7.4 mag rmag SDSS r band PSF magnitude in AB system 142-147 F6.4 mag e_rmag Error in rmag 149-155 F7.4 mag imag SDSS i band PSF magnitude in AB system 157-162 F6.4 mag e_imag Error in imag 164-170 F7.4 mag zmag SDSS z band PSF magnitude in AB system 172-177 F6.4 mag e_zmag Error in zmag 179-190 E12.5 mag Ymag [-1/27]?=-9.99999E+08 or -1 UKIDSS/Y band 2"-aperture magnitude in Vega 192-203 E12.5 mag e_Ymag [-1/10]?=-9.99999E+08 or -1 Error in Ymag 205-216 E12.5 mag Jmag [-1/27]?=-9.99999E+08 or -1 UKIDSS/J band 2"-aperture magnitude in Vega 218-229 E12.5 mag e_Jmag [-1/10]?=-9.99999E+08 or -1 Error in Jmag 231-242 E12.5 mag Hmag [-1/27]?=-9.99999E+08 or -1 UKIDSS/H band 2"-aperture magnitude in Vega 244-255 E12.5 mag e_Hmag [-1/10]?=-9.99999E+08 or -1 Error in Hmag 257-268 E12.5 mag Kmag [-1/27]?=-9.99999E+08 or -1 UKIDSS/K band 2"-aperture magnitude in Vega 270-281 E12.5 mag e_Kmag [-1/10]?=-9.99999E+08 or -1 Error in Kmag 283-289 F7.4 mag Ylim ?=-1 Nominal 5σ Y band depth 291-297 F7.4 mag Jlim ?=-1 Nominal 5σ J band depth 299-305 F7.4 mag Hlim ?=-1 Nominal 5σ H band depth 307-313 F7.4 mag Klim ?=-1 Nominal 5σ K band depth 315-321 F7.4 --- zph ?=-1 Photometric Redshift 323-329 F7.4 --- b_zph ?=-1 Lower limit on zph 331-337 F7.4 --- B_zph ?=-1 Upper limit on zph 339-345 F7.4 --- Prob [0,1]?=-1 Probability zph is accurate 347-353 F7.4 --- zsp ?=-1 Spectroscopic Redshift 355-359 F5.3 mag E(B-V) Galactic Extinction -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 01-Aug-2012
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