This article contains lists of quasars. More than a million quasars have been observed,[1] so any list on Wikipedia is necessarily a selection of them.
Proper naming of quasars are by Catalogue Entry, Qxxxx±yy using B1950 coordinates, or QSO Jxxxx±yyyy using J2000 coordinates. They may also use the prefix QSR. There are currently no quasars that are visible to the naked eye.
List of quasars
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This is a list of exceptional quasars for characteristics otherwise not separately listed
TON 618 is a very distant and extremely luminous quasar—technically, a hyperluminous, broad-absorption line, radio-loud quasar—located near the North Galactic Pole in the constellation Canes Venatici.
List of named quasars
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This is a list of quasars, with a common name, instead of a designation from a survey, catalogue or list.
The name comes from the shape of the extended emission, which is shaped like the handle of a teacup. The handle is a bubble shaped by quasar winds or small-scale radio jets.
RX J1131-1231 is the name of the complex, quasar, host galaxy and lensing galaxy, together. The quasar's host galaxy is also lensed into a Chwolson ring about the lensing galaxy. The four images of the quasar are embedded in the ring image.
First quasar discovered to be multiply image-lensed by a galaxy cluster and currently the third largest quasar lens with the separation between images of 15″[5][6][7]
SDSS J1029+2623
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Galaxy cluster at z = 0.6
The current largest-separation quasar lens with 22.6″ separation between furthest images[8][9][10]
List of quasars with apparent superluminal jet motion
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This is a list of quasars with jets that appear to be superluminal due to relativistic effects and line-of-sight orientation. Such quasars are sometimes referred to as superluminal quasars.
Quasars that have a recessional velocity greater than the speed of light (c) are very common. Any quasar with z > 1 is receding faster than c, while z exactly equal to 1 indicates recession at the speed of light.[33] Early attempts to explain superluminal quasars resulted in convoluted explanations with a limit of z = 2.326, or in the extreme z < 2.4.[34] The majority of quasars lie between z = 2 and z = 5.
first radio-"star" found to be at a high redshift with a non-stellar spectrum.
First radio-quiet quasar
QSO B1246+377 (BSO 1)
1965
The first radio-quiet quasi-stellar objects (QSO) were called Blue Stellar Objects or BSO, because they appeared like stars and were blue in color. They also had spectra and redshifts like radio-loud quasi-stellar radio-sources (QSR), so became quasars.[27][35][36]
These are the first quasars which were found and had their redshifts determined.
Most distant quasars
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In 1964 a quasar became the most distant object in the universe for the first time. Quasars would remain the most distant objects in the universe until 1997, when a pair of non-quasar galaxies would take the title (galaxies CL 1358+62 G1 & CL 1358+62 G2 lensed by galaxy cluster CL 1358+62).[55]
In cosmic scales distance is usually indicated by redshift (denoted by z) which is a measure of recessional velocity and inferred distance due to cosmological expansion.
Not the most distant object when discovered. It did not exceed HCM 6A galaxy lensed by Abell 370 at z = 6.56, discovered in 2002. Also discovered around the time of discovery was a new most distant galaxy, SDF J132418.3+271455 at z = 6.58.[63][64][65][62][77][80][81][82][83][84]
Most distant object when discovered. It exceeded galaxy SSA22-HCM1 (z = 5.74; discovered in 1999) as the most distant object.[85][86][72][73][77][87][88]
RD300 (RD J030117+002025)
2000
z = 5.50
Not the most distant object when discovered. It did not surpass galaxy SSA22-HCM1 (z = 5.74; discovered in 1999).[89][90][86][91][77]
SDSSp J120441.73−002149.6 (SDSS J1204-0021)
2000
z = 5.03
Not the most distant object when discovered. It did not surpass galaxy SSA22-HCM1 (z = 5.74; discovered in 1999).[91][77]
SDSSp J033829.31+002156.3 (QSO J0338+0021)
1998–2000
z = 5.00
First quasar discovered with z > 5. Not the most distant object when discovered. It did not surpass galaxy BR1202-0725 LAE (z = 5.64; discovered earlier in 1998).[77][85][92][93][94][95][96]
Most distant object when discovered and a gravitationally-lensed double-image quasar. From the time of discovery to 1991, had the least angular separation between images, 0.45″.[110][114][115]
Most distant object when discovered; first quasar with z > 3. Nicknamed "the blaze marking the edge of the universe".[118][120][121][122][123]
4C 05.34
1970–1973
z = 2.877
Most distant object when discovered. The redshift was so much greater than the previous record that it was believed to be erroneous, or spurious.[33][34][120][124][125]
Second quasar redshift measured. Redshift was discovered after publication of 3C273's results prompted researchers to re-examine spectroscopic data. Not the most distant object when discovered. The radio galaxy 3C 295 was found in 1960 with z = 0.461.[27][33][141][142][143][53][137]
First quasar redshift measured. Not the most distant object when discovered. The radio galaxy 3C 295 was found in 1960 with z = 0.461.[27][53][142][143][144]
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Interactive interface into the catalog of Quasars from the Sloane Digital Sky Survey
Catalogue of Bright Quasars and BL Lacertae Objects
Kitt Peak Quasar List (1975) VII/11
Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects (1993) VII/158