Atlas of Quasar Energy Distributions

Elvis et al (1994) ApJS 95, 1 (ADS link)

Median and -90, -68, +68, +90 percentile SEDs, normalized at 1.5 microns. Dashed line gives the +-100 percentile envelope.

The QED Atlas

The QED Atlas project (Atlas of Quasar Energy Distributions) published radio to X-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 47 AGN/quasars and demonstrated the diversity of quasar SEDs by generating the median SED and various percentile SEDs of the sample. No attempt has been made to update the data presented here, which should conform to that published in the original paper.

In particular, throughout we use cosmological parameters H0 = 50, Omega0 = 1, and Lambda = 0. What can I say, it made sense in 1994.

The most useful results of the paper are the median and percentile SEDs.

For further information on the data, contact Jonathan McDowell (jcm@cfa.harvard.edu) or Martin Elvis (melvis@cfa.harvard.edu).

  1. Sample
  2. Emission line removal
  3. Photometry zero points
  4. Dereddening
  5. Host galaxy subtraction
  6. The Atlas - full radio to X-ray SEDs
  7. The Atlas - 0.1-100 micron SEDs with and without starlight subtraction
  8. Sample derived properties
  9. Bolometric and multiwavelength luminosities
  10. Median and percentile SEDs
  11. Bolometric correction factors
  12. QED Atlas team members

Fig. 1. Examples of radio-loud (4C 34.47, top) and radio-quiet (Mkn 586, bottom) quasar energy distributions, illustrating the main continuum features. The energy distributions show the logarithm of the energy per unit logarithmic frequency interval, in the rest frame.