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On the QSO Content of the First Byurakan Survey and the Completeness of the Palomar Green Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

P. Véron
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Observatoire de Haute Provence, 04870 St. Michel l'Observatoire, France
A.M. Mickaelian
Affiliation:
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Byurakan 378433, Republic of Armenia
A.C. Gonçalves
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Observatoire de Haute Provence, 04870 St. Michel l'Observatoire, France
M.P. Véron-Cetty
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Observatoire de Haute Provence, 04870 St. Michel l'Observatoire, France

Abstract

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The second part of the First Byurakan Survey is aimed at detecting all bright (B < 16.5) UV-excess starlike objects in a large area of the sky. By comparison with major X-ray and radio surveys we tentatively identified as QSOs 11 FBS objects. We made spectroscopic observations of nine of them. We found six new QSOs bringing the total number of known QSOs in this survey to 42.

By comparison with the Palomar Green (PG) QSO survey, we found that the completeness of this last survey is of the order of 70% rather than 30–50% as suggested by several authors.

Type
II. Observational Properties of AGN and Related Objects
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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