High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data. II. The Spring Equatorial Stripe

• Published in: The Astronomical journal Vol. 119; no. 1; pp. 1 - 11
• Main Authors: Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A, Schneider, Donald P, Gunn, James E, Lupton, Robert H, Anderson, Scott F, Voges, Wolfgang, Margon, Bruce, Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A, Brinkmann, J, Brunner, Robert J, Carr, Michael A, Csabai, István, Doi, Mamoru, Frieman, Joshua A, Fukugita, Masataka, Hennessy, G. S, Hindsley, Robert B, Ivezić, Željko, Knapp, G. R, Lamb, D. Q, McKay, Timothy A, Munn, Jeffrey A, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Pauls, A. George, Pier, Jeffrey R, Rechenmacher, Ron, Richards, Gordon T, Rockosi, Constance M, Stoughton, Chris, Szalay, Alexander S, Thakar, Aniruddha R, Tucker, Douglas L, Waddell, Patrick, York, Donald G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IOP Publishing 01.01.2000
• Subjects: ABSORPTION SPECTRA; CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; COSMOLOGY; EMISSION SPECTRA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; PHOTOMETRY; QUASARS; RED SHIFT

This is the second paper in a series aimed at finding high-redshift quasars from five-color (u{sup '} g{sup '} r{sup '} i{sup '} z{sup '}) imaging data taken along the Celestial Equator by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) during its commissioning phase. In this paper, we...