AAS Meeting #194 - Chicago, Illinois, May/June 1999
Session 73. AGN: Radio Galaxies, QSO's and Blazars
Display, Wednesday, June 2, 1999, 10:00am-6:30pm, Southeast Exhibit Hall

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[73.15] Objects with Unusual Colors from SDSS Commissioning Data

X. Fan, M.A. Strauss (Princeton), D.P. Schneider (Penn State), J.E. Gunn, R.H. Lupton, G.R. Knapp (Princeton), B. Yanny (FNAL), SDSS Collaboration

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has acquired five-band (u', g', r', i', and z') imaging data over several hundred square degrees during its photometric commissioning phase. Point-source objects with distinctive SDSS colors have been selected for follow-up spectroscopic observations with the ARC 3.5 m telescope. Among these objects, we have found a large number of high-redshift quasars (3.6 \lesssim z \lesssim 5), several L-type stars, and a number of objects with exotic spectra whose nature will require further observations to establish. Some of these appear to be members of new classes of object.


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fan@astro.princeton.edu

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