The VMC Survey - VI. Quasars behind the Magellanic system

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Table 4

VMC quasar candidates.

Sources	Tile	Region A^a			Region B^a			Region C^a
		galaxy-like	star-like	all	galaxy-like	star-like	all	galaxy-like	star-like	all

Known QSOs	LMC 5_5	4	8	12	5	0	5	2	1	3
All sources^c	LMC 5_5	137	29	166	140	3	143	14	21	35
QSO fraction (%)	LMC 5_5	2.9	27.6	7.2	3.6	0	3.5	14.3	4.8	8.6

All sources^c	LMC 6_6	86	28	114	97	7	104	152^b	845^b	997^b
Expected QSOs	LMC 6_6	2	8	10	3	0	3	22^b	40^b	62^b
Candidate QSOs	LMC 6_6			15			11			49^b

All sources^c	LMC 8_8	129	55	184	317	1	318	3	12	15
Expected QSOs	LMC 8_8	4	15	19	11	0	11	0	1	1
Candidate QSOs	LMC 8_8			14			7			1

Notes.

^(a)

Regions ABC are those in Fig. 2.

^(b)

Includes reddened LMC stars.

^(c)

Objects with Y < 19.32 mag, J < 19.09 mag and K_s < 18.04 mag, photometric errors < 0.1 mag and quality flags = 0 in each band.

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