Gaia-unWISE Quasar Catalog (Quaia)

https://doi.org/10.26131/IRSA640
https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/doi/10.26131/IRSA640

10.26131/IRSA640

IPAC

Storey-Fisher, Kate; Hogg, David W.; Rix, Hans-Walter; Eilers, Anna-Christina; Fabbian, Giulio; Blanton, Michael R.; Alonso, David

Gaia-unWISE Quasar Catalog (Quaia)

The Gaia-unWISE Quasar Catalog (Quaia) samples the largest co-moving volume of any existing spectroscopic quasar sample. The catalog draws on the 6,649,162 quasar candidates identified by the Gaia mission that have redshift estimates from the space observatory's low-resolution blue photometer/red photometer spectra. Quaia combines the Gaia candidates with unWISE infrared data (based on the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer survey) to construct a catalog useful for cosmological and astrophysical quasar studies. The final catalog has 1,295,502 quasars with G < 20.5, and 755,850 candidates in an even cleaner G < 20.0 sample, with accompanying rigorous selection function models.

This dataset or service is made available by the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) at IPAC, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Dataset

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/Quaia/overview.html