The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog V. Seventh Data Release
Creators: name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Hall, Patrick B.
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Boroson, Todd A.
name: Ross, Nicholas P.
name: Shen, Yue
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Inada, Naohisa
name: Jester, Sebastian
name: Knapp, G. R.
name: Krawczyk, Coleman M.
name: Thakar, Anirudda R.
name: Berk, Daniel E. Vanden
name: Voges, Wolfgang
name: Yanny, Brian
name: York, Donald G.
name: Bahcall, Neta A.
name: Bizyaev, Dmitry
name: Blanton, Michael R.
name: Brewington, Howard
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Eisenstein, Daniel
name: Frieman, Joshua A.
name: Fukugita, Masataka
name: Gray, Jim
name: Gunn, James E.
name: Hibon, Pascale
name: Ivezic, Zeljko
name: Kent, Stephen M.
name: Kron, Richard G.
name: Lee, Myung Gyoon
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Malanushenko, Elena
name: Malanushenko, Viktor
name: Oravetz, Dan
name: Pan, K.
name: Pier, Jeffrey R.
name: Price, Ted N.
name: Saxe, David H.
name: Schlegel, David J.
name: Simmons, Audry
name: Snedden, Stephanie A.
name: SubbaRao, Mark U.
name: Szalay, Alexander S.
name: Weinberg, David H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the fifth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog, which is based upon the SDSS Seventh Data Release. The catalog, which contains 105,783 spectroscopically confirmed quasars, represents the conclusion of the SDSS-I and SDSS-II quasar survey. The catalog consists of the SDSS objects that have luminosities larger than M_i = -22.0 (in a cosmology with H_0 = 70 km/s/Mpc Omega_M = 0.3, and Omega_Lambda = 0.7) have at least one emission line with FWHM larger than 1000 km/s or have interesting/complex absorption features, are fainter than i &gt; 15.0 and have highly reliable redshifts. The catalog covers an area of 9380 deg^2. The quasar redshifts range from 0.065 to 5.46, with a median value of 1.49; the catalog includes 1248 quasars at redshifts greater than four, of which 56 are at redshifts greater than five. The catalog contains 9210 quasars with i &lt; 18; slightly over half of the entries have i&lt; 19. For each object the catalog presents positions accurate to better than 0.1" rms per coordinate, five-band (ugriz) CCD-based photometry with typical accuracy of 0.03 mag, and information on the morphology and selection method. The catalog also contains radio, near-infrared, and X-ray emission properties of the quasars, when available, from other large-area surveys. The calibrated digital spectra cover the wavelength region 3800-9200 Ang. at a spectral resolution R = 2000 the spectra can be retrieved from the SDSS public database using the information provided in the catalog. Over 96% of the objects in the catalog were discovered by the SDSS. We also include a supplemental list of an additional 207 quasars with SDSS spectra whose archive photometric information is incomplete.
description: Accepted, to appear in AJ, 7 figures, electronic version of Table 2 is available, see http://www.sdss.org/dr7/products/value_added/qsocat_dr7.html