TABLE  vmcQsos

Contains a catalogue of QSOs.

The catalogue contains about 1172 QSOs.
300 are in VMC QSO papers
117 known quasars from Cioni et al. 2013A&A...549A..29C (table 2)
37 confirmed quasars from Ivanov et al. 2016A&A...588A..93I (table 1 and table 2 merged)
136 confirmed quasars from Ivanov et al. 2024A&A...687A..16I (table 1 and table 4 merged)
6 confirmed quasars from Maitra et al. 2019A&A...622A..29M (table A.1 and A.3 merged)


Required constraints:
  • Primary key is (uniqueID)

NameTypeLengthUnitDescriptionDefault ValueUnified Content Descriptor
uniqueIDbigint8 UID of QSO meta.id;meta.main
externIauNamevarchar32 IAU format name from VMC or otherwise {catalogue TType keyword: name} meta.id
cuEventIDint4 UID of curation event giving rise to this record meta.id
rafloat8degRA in degrees (J2000) from the VMC catalogue {catalogue TType keyword: r} pos.eq.ra;meta.main
decfloat8degDEC in degrees (J2000) from the VMC catalogue {catalogue TType keyword: d} pos.eq.dec;meta.main
yMagreal4magY band magnitude from VMC {catalogue TType keyword: y}-0.9999995e9phot.mag;em.IR.NIR;meta.main
yMagErrreal4magError on Y band magnitude {catalogue TType keyword: yerr}-0.9999995e9stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.NIR
jMagreal4magJ band magnitude from VMC {catalogue TType keyword: j}-0.9999995e9phot.mag;em.IR.J;meta.main
jMagErrreal4magError on J band magnitude {catalogue TType keyword: jerr}-0.9999995e9stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J
ksMagreal4magKs band magnitude from VMC {catalogue TType keyword: k}-0.9999995e9phot.mag;em.IR.K;meta.main
ksMagErrreal4magError on Ks band magnitude {catalogue TType keyword: kerr}-0.9999995e9stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.K
classtinyint1 VMC source object class -1 (point), 1 (extended) {catalogue TType keyword: class} meta.code
zSpecreal4 Spectroscopic redshift from VLT/SAAO observations {catalogue TType keyword: z}-999999500.0src.redshift.spec
Total length89