List of quasars

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This is a list of quasars.

Proper naming of quasars are by Catalogue Entry, Qxxxx±yy using B1950 coordinates, or QSO Jxxxx±yyyy using J2000 coordinates. They may also use the prefix QSR.


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[edit] List of quasars

Quasar Notes
Twin Quasar Associated with a possible planet microlensing event in the gravitational lens galaxy that is doubling the Twin Quasar's image
QSR J1819+3845 Proved interstellar scintillation due to the interstellar medium
This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.
Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

[edit] List of named quasars

This is a list of quasars, with a common name, instead of a designation from a survey, catalogue or list.

Quasar Origin of name Notes
Twin Quasar
Einstein Cross
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[edit] List of multiply-imaged quasars

This is a list of quasars, that as a result of gravitational lensing, appears as multiple images on Earth.

Quasar Images Lens Notes
Twin Quasar 2 YGKOW G1 First gravitationally lensed object discovered ;

Second largest separation between images (6 ″) ;
Einstein Cross 4 Huchra's Lens First Einstein Cross discovered
RXS J1131-1231 's quasar 4 RXS J1131-1231 's elliptical galaxy RXS J1131-1231 is the name of the complex, quasar, host galaxy and lensing galaxy, together. The quasar's host galaxy is also lensed into a Chwolson ring about the lensing galaxy. The four images of the quasar are embedded in the ring image.
SDSS J1004+411 5 SDSS J1004+4112 First quasar discovered to be multiply-image lensed by a galaxy cluster ;

Largest separation between images (15 ″) ;
QSO B1359+154 6 CLASS B1359+154 and three more galaxies First sextuply-imaged galaxy
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[edit] List of quasars with apparent superluminal jet motion

This is a list of quasars with jets that appear to be superluminal due to relativistic effects and line-of-sight orientation.

Quasar Superluminality Notes
3C 179 7.6c Fifth discovered, first with double lobes
3C 216
3C 273
3C 345
3C 380
4C 69.21
(Q1642+690, QSO B1642+690)
8C 1928+738
(Q1928+738, QSO J1927+73, Quasar J192748.6+735802)
PKS 0637-752
QSO B1642+690
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[edit] Firsts

Title Quasar Year Data Notes
First "star" discovered later found to be a quasar
First radio source discovered later found to be a quasar
First quasar discovered 3C 48 1960 first radio source for which optical identification was found, that was a star-like looking object
First quasar identified 3C 273 1962 first radio-"star" found to be at a high redshift with a non-stellar spectrum.
First radio-quiet quasar
First host galaxy of a quasar discovered 3C 48 1982
First quasar found to seemingly not have a host galaxy HE0450-2958 2005 If there is a host galaxy, it must be less than 300 ly across or be a dark galaxy
First gravitationally lensed quasar identified Twin Quasar The lens is a galaxy known as YGKOW G1
First quasar found with a jet with apparent superluminal motion
First quasar found with the classic double radio-lobe structure 3C 47 1964

[edit] Extremes

Title Quasar Data Notes
Optically brightest on Earth 3C 273 Apparent Magnitude
~ 12.9		 Absolute Magnitude: -26.7
Seemingly optically brightest APM 08279+5255 Seeming Absolute Magnitude
−32.2		 This quasar is gravitationally lensed, it's actual absolute magnitude is estimated to be -30.5
Optically brightest at source Absolute Magnitude
Most powerful quasar radio source 3C 273 Also the most powerful radio source in the sky
Most powerful
Most variable quasar radio source QSO J1819+3845 (Q1817+387) Also the most variable extrasolar radio source
Least variable quasar radio source
Most variable quasar optical source
Least variable quasar optical source
Most distant SDSS J114816.64+525150.3 z=6.419 Discovered in 2003 by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey [1] [2] [3]
Most distant radio-quiet quasar
Most distant radio-loud quasar SDSSJ0836+0054 z=5.8 [4]
Most distant blazar quasar QSO J0906+6930 z=5.47
Least distant 3C273 z=0.158

[edit] Most Distant Quasars

10 Most Distant
Rank Quasar Distance Notes
1 SDSS J114816.64+525150.3 z=6.419 [1] [2] [3]
Most Distant Quasar Titleholders
Quasar Date Distance Notes
SDSS J114816.64+525150.3 2003 - z=6.419 [1] [2] [3]
SDSS J1030+0524 2001 - z=6.28 [5] [6]
RD J030117+002025 2000 - z=5.50 [7]
PC 1247-3406 1991 - z=4.897 [8] [9]

[edit] See also

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b cPDF arXiv, High-excitation CO in a quasar host galaxy at z= 6.42, July 2003
  2. ^ a b cPDF arXiv, 350 Micron Dust Emission from High Redshift Quasars, March 2006
  3. ^ a b cPDF arXiv, Origin of supermassive black holes, Sept 2007
  4. ^PDF arXiv, An Overdensity of Galaxies near the Most DistantRadio-Loud Quasar, Nov 2005
  5. ^PDF arXiv, VLT observations of the z= 6.28 quasar SDSS 1030+0524, Feb 2002
  6. ^ The Astrophysical Journal, 578:702–707, 2002 October 20, A Constraint on the Gravitational Lensing Magnification and Age of the Redshift z = 6.28 Quasar SDSS 1030+0524
  7. ^ The Astrophysical Journal, 568:71–81, 2002 March 20, Chandra Detection of a Type II Quasar at z = 3.2881
  8. ^ The Astronomical Journal, vol. 108, no. 4, p. 1147-1155, Multicolor detection of high-redshift quasars, 2: Five objects with Z greater than or approximately equal to 4, April 1994
  9. ^ New Scientist, issue 1842, 10 October 1992, page 17, Science: Infant galaxy's light show

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