QSO-candidates in OGLE-II Galactic bulge fields

DOI

We present 97 QSO candidates in 48 Galactic bulge fields of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment II (OGLE-II) covering ~11deg^2^, which are selected via their variability. We extend light curves of variable objects which were detected in a 3-yr baseline in the OGLE-II variable star catalogue to fourth year. We search for objects that are faint (16<I_0_<18.5) and slowly variable over 4-yr in this catalogue by using the variogram/structure function. Finding the QSOs in such stellar-crowded and high extinction fields is challenging, but should be useful for the astrometric reference frame. Spectroscopic follow-up observations are required to confirm these QSO candidates. Follow-up observations are being prepared for four of these fields (BUL_SC1, 2, 32 and 45). Follow-up observations for other fields are strongly encouraged. The complete list and light curves of all 97 candidates are available in electronic format at http://www.astro.princeton.edu/sumi/QSO-OGLEII/ .

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.73560331
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Provenance
Creator Sumi T.; Wozniak P.R.; Eyer L.; Dobrzycki A.; Udalski A.; Szymanski M.K.,Kubiak M.; Pietrzynski G.; Soszynski I.; Zebrun K.; Szewczyk O.,Wyrzykowski L.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2007
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy