The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Fourteenth data release

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Table 1

Programs from SDSS-III/BOSS (Eisenstein et al. 2011; Dawson et al. 2013) and SDSS-IV (Dawson et al. 2016; Blanton et al. 2017) targeting quasars and taken as inputs to build up the SDSS-DR14 quasar catalog.


Bit	Selection	Bit	Selection	Bit	Selection	Bit	Selection

BOSS_TARGET1

10	`QSO_CORE` ⁽¹⁾	11	`QSO_BONUS` ⁽¹⁾	12	`QSO_KNOWN_MIDZ` ⁽¹⁾	13	`QSO_KNOWN_LOHIZ` ⁽¹⁾
14	`QSO_NN` ⁽¹⁾	15	`QSO_UKIDSS` ⁽¹⁾	16	`QSO_LIKE_COADD` ⁽¹⁾	17	`QSO_LIKE` ⁽¹⁾
18	`QSO_FIRST_BOSS` ⁽¹⁾	19	`QSO_KDE` ⁽¹⁾	40	`QSO_CORE_MAIN` ⁽¹⁾	41	`QSO_BONUS_MAIN` ⁽¹⁾
42	`QSO_CORE_ED` ⁽¹⁾	43	`QSO_CORE_LIKE` ⁽¹⁾	44	`QSO_KNOWN_SUPPZ` ⁽¹⁾

ANCILLARY_TARGET1

6	`BLAZGVAR` ⁽²⁾	7	`BLAZR` ⁽²⁾	8	`BLAZXR` ⁽²⁾	9	`BLAZXRSAL` ⁽²⁾
10	`BLAZXRVAR` ⁽²⁾	11	`XMMBRIGHT` ⁽²⁾	12	`XMMGRIZ` ⁽²⁾	13	`XMMHR` ⁽²⁾
14	`XMMRED` ⁽²⁾	15	`FBQSBAL` ⁽²⁾	16	`LBQSBAL` ⁽²⁾	17	`ODDBAL` ⁽²⁾
18	`OTBAL` ⁽²⁾	19	`PREVBAL` ⁽²⁾	20	`VARBAL` ⁽²⁾	22	`QSO_AAL` ⁽²⁾
23	`QSO_AALS` ⁽²⁾	24	`QSO_IAL` ⁽²⁾	25	`QSO_RADIO` ⁽²⁾	26	`QSO_RADIO_AAL` ⁽²⁾
27	`QSO_RADIO_IAL` ⁽²⁾	28	`QSO_NOAALS` ⁽²⁾	29	`QSO_GRI` ⁽²⁾	30	`QSO_HIZ` ⁽²⁾
31	`QSO_RIZ` ⁽²⁾	50	`BLAZGRFLAT` ⁽²⁾	51	`BLAZGRQSO` ⁽²⁾	52	`BLAZGX` ⁽²⁾
53	`BLAZGXQSO` ⁽²⁾	54	`BLAZGXR` ⁽²⁾	55	`BLAZXR` ⁽²⁾	58	`CXOBRIGHT` ⁽²⁾
59	`CXORED` ⁽²⁾

ANCILLARY_TARGET2

0	`HIZQSO82` ⁽²⁾	1	`HIZQSOIR` ⁽²⁾	2	`KQSO_BOSS` ⁽²⁾	3	`QSO_VAR` ⁽²⁾
4	`QSO_VAR_FPG` ⁽²⁾	5	`RADIO_2LOBE_QSO` ⁽²⁾	7	`QSO_SUPPZ` ⁽²⁾	8	`QSO_VAR_SDSS` ⁽²⁾
9	`QSO_WISE_SUPP` ⁽³⁾	10	`QSO_WISE_FULL_SKY` ⁽⁴⁾	13	`DISKEMITTER_REPEAT` ⁽⁴⁾	14	`WISE_BOSS_QSO` ⁽⁴⁾
15	`QSO_XD_KDE_PAIR` ⁽⁴⁾	24	`TDSS_PILOT` ⁽⁴⁾	25	`SPIDERS_PILOT` ⁽⁴⁾	26	`TDSS_SPIDERS_PILOT` ⁽⁴⁾
27	`QSO_VAR_LF` ⁽⁴⁾	31	`QSO_EBOSS_W3_ADM` ⁽⁴⁾	32	`XMM_PRIME` ⁽⁴⁾	33	`XMM_SECOND` ⁽⁴⁾
53	`SEQUELS_TARGET` ⁽⁴⁾	54	`RM_TILE1` ⁽⁴⁾	55	`RM_TILE2` ⁽⁴⁾	56	`QSO_DEEP` ⁽⁴⁾

EBOSS_TARGET0

10	`QSO_EBOSS_CORE` ⁽⁵⁾	11	`QSO_PTF` ⁽⁵⁾	12	`QSO_REOBS` ⁽⁵⁾	13	`QSO_EBOSS_KDE` ⁽⁵⁾
14	`QSO_EBOSS_FIRST` ⁽⁵⁾	15	`QSO_BAD_BOSS` ⁽⁵⁾	16	`QSO_BOSS_TARGET` ⁽⁵⁾	17	`QSO_SDSS_TARGET` ⁽⁵⁾
18	`QSO_KNOWN` ⁽⁵⁾	20	`SPIDERS_RASS_AGN` ⁽⁶⁾	22	`SPIDERS_ERASS_AGN` ⁽⁶⁾	30	`TDSS_A` ⁽⁷⁾
31	`TDSS_FES_DE` ⁽⁸⁾	33	`TDSS_FES_NQHISN` ⁽⁸⁾	34	`TDSS_FES_MGII` ⁽⁸⁾	35	`TDSS_FES_VARBAL` ⁽⁸⁾
40	SEQUELS_PTF_VARIABLE

EBOSS_TARGET1

9	`QSO1_VAR_S82` ⁽⁹⁾	10	`QSO1_EBOSS_CORE` ⁽⁵⁾	11	`QSO1_PTF` ⁽⁵⁾	12	`QSO1_REOBS` ⁽⁵⁾
13	`QSO1_EBOSS_KDE` ⁽⁵⁾	14	`QSO1_EBOSS_FIRST` ⁽⁵⁾	15	`QSO1_BAD_BOSS` ⁽⁵⁾	16	`QSO_BOSS_TARGET` ⁽⁵⁾
17	`QSO_SDSS_TARGET` ⁽⁵⁾	18	`QSO_KNOWN` ⁽⁵⁾	30	`TDSS_TARGET` ^(7,8,10)	31	`SPIDERS_TARGET` ^(6,10)

EBOSS_TARGET2

0	`SPIDERS_RASS_AGN` ⁽⁶⁾	2	`SPIDERS_ERASS_ANG` ⁽⁶⁾	4	`SPIDERS_XMMSL_AGN` ⁽⁶⁾	20	`TDSS_A` ⁽⁷⁾
21	`TDSS_FES_DE` ⁽⁸⁾	23	`TDSS_FES_NQHISN` ⁽⁸⁾	24	`TDSS_FES_MGII` ⁽⁸⁾	25	`TDSS_FES_VARBAL` ⁽⁸⁾
26	`TDSS_B` ⁽⁷⁾	27	`TDSS_FES_HYPQSO` ⁽⁸⁾	31	`TDSS_CP` ⁽⁸⁾	32	`S82X_TILE1` ⁽¹⁰⁾
33	`S82X_TILE2` ⁽¹⁰⁾	34	`S82X_TILE3` ⁽¹⁰⁾	50	`S82X_BRIGHT_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾	51	`S82X_XMM_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾
52	`S82X_WISE_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾			53	`S82X_SACLAY_VAR_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾
54	`S82X_SACLAY_BDT_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾			55	`S82X_SACLAY_HIZ_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾
56	`S82X_RICHARDS15_PHOTOQSO_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾			57	`S82X_PETERS15_COLORVAR_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾
58	`S82X_LSSTZ4_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾			59	`S82X_UNWISE_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾
60	`S82X_GTRADMZ4_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾			61	`S82X_CLAGN1_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾
62	`S82X_CLAGN2_TARGET` ⁽¹⁰⁾

References. ⁽¹⁾ Ross et al. (2012). ⁽²⁾ Dawson et al. (2013). ⁽³⁾ Ahn et al. (2014). ⁽⁴⁾ Alam et al. (2015). ⁽⁵⁾ Myers et al. (2015). ⁽⁶⁾ Dwelly et al. (2017). ⁽⁷⁾ Morganson et al. (2015). ⁽⁸⁾ MacLeod et al. (2018). ⁽⁹⁾ Palanque-Delabrouille et al. (2016). ⁽¹⁰⁾ Abolfathi et al. (2018).

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