DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16410987
title: Data for QZO: A Catalog of 5 Million Quasars from the Zwicky Transient Facility

description: QZO.csv

The QZO catalog, which includes 4,849,574 objects and columns as described below, excluding the duplicate objects flag. The classifications are based on XGB models trained on ZTF g-band median magnitude and light curves classification with transformer model, as well as WISE W[1-4] magnitudes and colors. The photo-zs are based on ZTF g-band magnitude and WISE magnitudes and colors. We remove duplicated ZTF light curves by removing objects which within the full ZTF catalog have at least one neighbour within 1 arcsec with more ZTF observation epochs. The final number of quasars was achieved with magnitude, number of observation epochs, and minimum quasar classification probability cuts, such that g < n_obs / 80 + 20.375, where n_obs is the number of ZTF observational epochs per light curve, and p_(QSO) > 0.9, where p_(QSO) is XGB classification probability for the QSO class. The photo-zs are available for 35% of these objects, depending on the availability of WISE observations.

ZTF_all_QSO.csv

This file provides all the columns for 78,078,450 objects classified as QSOs by at least one of the two XGB models with and without the WISE features. There are no cuts applied, and there are no duplicates removed. 26% of objects are marked with the duplicates flag.

train.csv

The train data predictions. This file contains 2,588,221 records, with ZTF ID and duplicates flag missing. Selecting the longest ZTF light curve for each non duplicated SDSS object removed ZTF duplicates.

Catalog columns

ID                                                ZTF identifier

ra                                                right ascension

dec                                             declination

n_obs                                         number of ZTF observation epochs

is_duplicate                               flag indicating duplicated light curves

mag_median                             ZTF g-band median magnitude

p_[galaxy, QSO, star]               classification probabilities

p_WISE_[galaxy, QSO, star]    classifications with added WISE data

redshift                                      redshift estimate

ANN_clf.[data-00000-of-00001, index]

ANN model for classification of ZTF g-band light curves. ANN model is trained on ZTF g-band data with at least 20 observation epochs per light curve. It does not require scaling of input light curves, which is done separately for each light curve as part of the transformer model. An example on how to load and use the ANN can be found in the script “run_inference.py” in the GitHub repository.

XGB_clf__ZTF_[PS, WISE, GAIA, PS_WISE, PS_GAIA, WISE_GAIA, PS_WISE_GAIA].pickle

XGB_z__ZTF_WISE.pickle

XGB classification and redshift models for different combinations of input surveys. XGB classification models are trained on all ZTF data with available ANN classification, learning to classify missing features. The XGB redshift model does not include ANN classification as features. An example on how to load and use XGB models can be found in the script “run_inference_XGB.py” in the GitHub repository.

Features order

ZTF         g_mag_median, p_ANN_galaxy, p_ANN_QSO, p_ANN_star

PS           g, r, i, z, g - r, g - i, g - z, r - i, r - z, i - z

WISE      W1, W2, W3, W4, W1 - W2, W1 - W3, W1 - W4, W2 - W3, W2 - W4, W3 - W4

GAIA       g_mean_mag, parallax, pmra, pmdec, bp_mean_mag, rp_mean_mag, bp_rp_excess_factor

The exact column names can be found in the script “features.py” in the Github repository.