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astro-ph2008★ 132 cited

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The spectroscopic QSO catalogue

Scott M. Croom, Gordon T. Richards, Tom Shanks +27

We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Survey. This is a deep, 18<g<21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at probing in detail…

astro-ph2008★ 35 cited

A High Yield of New Sightlines for the Study of Intergalactic Helium: Far-UV-Bright Quasars from SDSS, GALEX, and HST

David Syphers, Scott F. Anderson, Wei Zheng +6

Investigations of He II Ly-alpha (304 A rest) absorption toward a half-dozen quasars at z~3-4 have demonstrated the great potential of helium studies of the IGM, but the current cr…

astro-ph2008★ 89 cited

Fifteen new T dwarfs discovered in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey

D. J. Pinfield, B. Burningham, M. Tamura +32

We present the discovery of fifteen new T2.5-T7.5 dwarfs (with estimated distances between ~24-93pc, identified in the first three main data releases of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky…

astro-ph2007★ 16 cited

Four Faint T Dwarfs from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Southern Stripe

Kuenley Chiu, Michael C. Liu, Linhua Jiang +6

We present the optical and near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of four faint T dwarfs newly discovered from the UKIDSS first data release. The sample, drawn from an imaged ar…

astro-ph2007★ 195 cited

A Survey of z~6 Quasars in the SDSS Deep Stripe: I. a Flux-Limited Sample at z_{AB}<21

Linhua Jiang, Xiaohui Fan, James Annis +9

We present the discovery of five quasars at z~6 selected from 260 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scannin…

astro-ph2007★ 97 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. II. Statistical Lens Sample from the Third Data Release

Naohisa Inada, Masamune Oguri, Robert H. Becker +31

We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420…