Quasars in the Galactic Anti-Center Area from the LAMOST DR3

Abstract

We present a sample of quasars discovered in the area of Galactic Anti-Center (GAC) of $150^{\circ }\le l\le 210^{\circ }$ and $|b|\le 30^{\circ }$, based on the LAMOST Data Release 3 (DR3). The sample contains 151 spectroscopically confirmed quasars. Among them 80 are newly discovered with the LAMOST. All those quasars are very bright, with $i$ magnitudes peaking around 17.5\, mag. All the newly quasars are discovered serendipitously, targeted originally with the LAMOST as stars of bluer colours, except for a few targeted as variable, young stellar object candidates. This bright quasar sample at low Galactic latitudes will help fill the gap in the spatial distribution of known quasars near the Galactic disk that are used to construct astrometric reference frame for the purpose of accurate proper motion measurements, for example, Gaia. They are also excellent tracers to probe the kinematics and chemistry of the interstellar medium of the Milky Way disk and halo via absorption line spectroscopy.

arXiv comment4 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letter

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