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J/A+AS/128/507      The Hamburg Quasar Survey. II.                (Engels+ 1998)
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The Hamburg Quasar Survey. II. A first list of 121 quasars
     Engels D., Hagen H.-J., Cordis L., Koehler S., Wisotzki L., Reimers D.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 128, 507 (1998)>
    =1998A&AS..128..507E
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ADC_Keywords: QSOs ; Redshifts ; Galaxies, spectra
Keywords: surveys - quasars: general

Abstract:
    The Hamburg Quasar Survey is a wide-angle objective prism survey for
    finding bright QSOs in the northern extragalactic sky (|b|>20{deg};
    {delta}>0{deg}). The taking of the prism plates for 567 fields
    covering this area was completed in 1997. Including direct plates for
    fields with {delta}> 20{deg} the plate archive contains now 1871
    plates. In this paper we present a first list of 121 quasars, which
    were verified by slit spectroscopy in the years 1986-1991, while
    experiments to develop efficient selection techniques were made. The
    sample contains objects with brightnesses 15<=B<=19.5 and redshifts
    z<=2.8 collected over various parts of the sky, for which objective
    prism plates were available at that time.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table2-4.dat       73      122   Names, coordinates, redshift, observing dates,
                                  B magnitudes and comments
fig4.ps            63     9822   Quasars spectra
fig5.ps            63     9230   Quasars spectra
fig6.ps            63    10187   Quasars spectra
fig7.ps            63     9784   Quasars spectra
fig8.ps            63    10114   Quasars spectra
fig9.ps            63     9338   Quasars spectra
fig10.ps           63     9903   Quasars spectra
fig11.ps           63     9185   Quasars spectra
fig12.ps           63     9096   Quasars spectra
fig13.ps           63     9975   Quasars spectra
fig14.ps           63      818   Quasars spectra
fig15.ps           65      597   Spectrum of quasar HS 2348+0438
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See also:
   J/A+AS/115/235 : The Hamburg/ESO survey for bright QSOs. II. (Reimers+, 1996)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2-4.dat
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   Bytes Format   Units   Label     Explanations
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   1- 12  A12     ---     Name      Object Name
  14- 15  I2      h       RAh       Right ascension (1950)
  17- 18  I2      min     RAm       Right ascension (1950)
  20- 23  F4.1    s       RAs       Right ascension (1950)
      25  A1      ---     DE-       Declination sign
  26- 27  I2      deg     DEd       Declination (1950)
  29- 30  I2      arcmin  DEm       Declination (1950)
  32- 33  I2      arcsec  DEs       Declination (1950)
  35- 39  F5.3    ---     z         Redshift
  41- 48  A8   "DD/MM/YY" ObsDate   Observing date
  50- 53  F4.1    mag     Bmag      B magnitude
  55- 62  A8      ---     spFile    Name of file (in this directory)
                                      containing the spectrum
  64- 73  A10     ---     Com       Comments
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History:
  * 16-Jan-1998: First version with 121 quasars.
  * 02-Jun-1998 (from Dieter Engels): With respect to the printed version
    the following changes were applied to the tables and figures:

    The spectrum of the last quasar in table2-4.dat (Table 4 in the
    paper), HS 2348+0438, was not included in the original Figures.
    Instead the spectrum of another object, the probable quasar HS
    1404+3203, originally not assigned for publication in this paper
    entered Figure 13. The coordinates of HS 1404+3203 are 14 04 45.5
    +32 03 31 (B1950). Its brightness is B=17.8+/-0.1 and the redshift is
    z=2.4, provided that the strong emission line at 4130 Angstroem is Ly
    alpha. The spectrum published requires verification. The total number
    of quasars presented in this paper is now 122.

    table2-4.dat was updated accordingly and the spectrum of HS 2348+0438
    is provided as separate Postscript file.

Acknowledgements: Dieter Engels <dengels@hs.uni-hamburg.de>

References:
   Hagen et al., Paper I.    1995A&AS..111..195H
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(End)   Patricia Bauer [CDS], Dieter Engels [Hamburger Sternwarte]   02-Jun-1998