@article{fcb5c227b6ee4371994c1e87a639f36f,
title = "High-redshift quasars found in sloan digital sky survey commissioning data. V. Hobby-Eberly telescope observations",
abstract = "We report the discovery of 27 quasars with redshifts between 3.58 and 4.49. The objects were identified as high-redshift candidates based on their colors in Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning data. The redshifts were confirmed with low-resolution spectra obtained at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. The quasars' i* magnitudes range from 18.55 to 20.97. Nearly 60\% of the quasar candidates observed are confirmed spectroscopically as quasars. Two of the objects are broad absorption line quasars, and several other quasars appear to have narrow associated absorption features.",
keywords = "Early universe, Quasars: general",
author = "Schneider, \{Donald P.\} and Xiaohui Fan and Strauss, \{Michael A.\} and Gunn, \{James E.\} and Richards, \{Gordon T.\} and Hill, \{Gary J.\} and MacQueen, \{Phillip J.\} and Ramsey, \{Lawrence W.\} and Adams, \{Mark T.\} and Booth, \{John A.\} and Hill, \{Grant M.\} and Knapp, \{G. R.\} and Lupton, \{Robert H.\} and Saxe, \{David H.\} and Matthew Shetrone and Tufts, \{Joseph R.\} and \{Vanden Berk\}, \{Daniel E.\} and Wolf, \{Marsha J.\} and York, \{Donald G.\} and Anderson, \{John E.\} and Anderson, \{Scott F.\} and Bahcall, \{Neta A.\} and J. Brinkmann and Robert Brunner and Istvan Csabai and Masataka Fukugita and Hennessy, \{G. S.\} and {\v Z}eljko Ivezi{\'c} and Lamb, \{Donald Q.\} and Munn, \{Jeffrey A.\} and Thakar, \{Aniruddha R.\}",
year = "2001",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1086/319422",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "121",
pages = "1232--1240",
journal = "Astronomical Journal",
issn = "0004-6256",
publisher = "American Astronomical Society",
number = "3",
}