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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 664, Issue 1, Pages 64-70Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/518734
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galaxies : active; quasars : general; surveys; techniques : spectroscopic
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- National Research Foundation of Korea [과06A1102, R01-2005-000-10610-0] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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We report the discovery of 40 bright quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at low Galactic latitude (b < vertical bar 20 degrees vertical bar). The low Galactic latitude region has been considered a place to avoid when searching for extragalactic sources, because of the high Galactic extinction, as well as a large number of stars contaminating the sample selection. Bright quasars (R <= 17) suffer more from such difficulties because they look like bright stars, which are numerous at low b, yet their surface number density is very low. In order to find quasars in this region of the sky less explored for extragalactic sources, we have started a survey of low Galactic latitude bright quasars as a part of the Seoul National University Quasar Survey in Optical (SNUQSO). Quasar candidates have been selected from radio and near-infrared (NIR) data. Out of 88 targets, we identify 29 bright quasars/AGNs around the antigalactic center, and 11 bright quasars/AGNs in the outskirts of the Galactic center, from two observing runs in 2006 at the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory (BOAO) in Korea. Our finding demonstrates that quasars/AGNs can be discovered effectively, even at low Galactic latitude, using multiwavelength data.
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