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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/28799
Title: Catalog of quasars from the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 3
Authors: Nakoneczny, S.
Bilicki, M.
Solarz, A.
Pollo, A.
Maddox, N.
SPINIELLO, CHIARA 
BRESCIA, Massimo 
NAPOLITANO, NICOLA ROSARIO 
Issue Date: 2019
Journal: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 
Number: 624
First Page: A13
Abstract: We present a catalog of quasars selected from broad-band photometric ugri data of the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 3 (KiDS DR3). The QSOs are identified by the random forest (RF) supervised machine learning model, trained on Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR14 spectroscopic data. We first cleaned the input KiDS data of entries with excessively noisy, missing or otherwise problematic measurements. Applying a feature importance analysis, we then tune the algorithm and identify in the KiDS multiband catalog the 17 most useful features for the classification, namely magnitudes, colors, magnitude ratios, and the stellarity index. We used the t-SNE algorithm to map the multidimensional photometric data onto 2D planes and compare the coverage of the training and inference sets. We limited the inference set to r < 22 to avoid extrapolation beyond the feature space covered by training, as the SDSS spectroscopic sample is considerably shallower than KiDS. This gives 3.4 million objects in the final inference sample, from which the random forest identified 190 000 quasar candidates. Accuracy of 97% (percentage of correctly classified objects), purity of 91% (percentage of true quasars within the objects classified as such), and completeness of 87% (detection ratio of all true quasars), as derived from a test set extracted from SDSS and not used in the training, are confirmed by comparison with external spectroscopic and photometric QSO catalogs overlapping with the KiDS footprint. The robustness of our results is strengthened by number counts of the quasar candidates in the r band, as well as by their mid-infrared colors available from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). An analysis of parallaxes and proper motions of our QSO candidates found also in Gaia DR2 suggests that a probability cut of p<SUB>QSO</SUB> > 0.8 is optimal for purity, whereas p<SUB>QSO</SUB> > 0.7 is preferable for better completeness. Our study presents the first comprehensive quasar selection from deep high-quality KiDS data and will serve as the basis for versatile studies of the QSO population detected by this survey. <P />A copy of the catalog is available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to <A href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr</A> (ftp://130.79.128.5) or via <A href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/624/A13">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/624/A13</A>We publicly release the resulting catalog at <A href="http://kids.strw.leidenuniv.nl/DR3/quasarcatalog.php">http://kids.strw.leidenuniv.nl/DR3/quasarcatalog.php</A>, and the code at <A href="https://github.com/snakoneczny/kids-quasars">http://https://github.com/snakoneczny/kids-quasars
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/28799
URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03084v2
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/04/aa34794-18/aa34794-18.html
ISSN: 0004-6361
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834794
Bibcode ADS: 2019A&A...624A..13N
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