Faint quasi-stellar-object candidates in selected areas 28 and 68 identified from multicolor photometry

Joseph C. Shields, David C. Koo, Richard C. Kron
1989 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific  
We identify 45 QSO candidates over a total area of 0.53 square degree in two fields at high Galactic latitudes. These candidates reached B ~ 21.5 for field Lynx.3 in SA 28 and B ~ 22 for field SA 68.2 and were selected from a subset of objects in catalogs generated from multicolor photometry (UBV) of deep Kitt Peak 4-m plates with limits of B ~ 24. This subset consists of all objects which appeared stellarlike in size but which did not have UBV colors of common Galactic stars. Besides several
more » ... obable high-redshift (z > 3) QSOs, this study yields faint QSO counts consistent with those from other surveys and thus provides further support to models that include mainly luminosity evolution of QSOs.
doi:10.1086/132440 fatcat:licerada2fbyhpeicmgi4mchwu