2025ApJ...979..107H -
Astrophys. J., 979, 107 (2025/February-1)
Photometric Selection of Type 1 Quasars in the XMM-LSS Field with Machine Learning and the Disk-Corona Connection.
HUANG J., LUO B., BRANDT W.N., CHEN Y., NI Q., XUE Y. and ZHANG Z.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present photometric selection of type 1 quasars in the ≈5.3 deg2 XMM-Large Scale Structure survey field with machine learning. We constructed our training and blind-test samples using spectroscopically identified Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars, galaxies, and stars. We utilized the XGBoost machine learning method to select a total of 1591 quasars. We assessed the classification performance based on the blind-test sample, and the outcome was favorable, demonstrating high reliability (≈99.9%) and good completeness (≈87.5%). We used XGBoost to estimate photometric redshifts of our selected quasars. The estimated photometric redshifts span a range from 0.41 to 3.75. The outlier fraction of these photometric redshift estimates is ≈17%, and the normalized median absolute deviation (σNMAD) is ≈0.07. To study the quasar disk-corona connection, we constructed a subsample of 1016 quasars with Hyper Suprime-Cam i < 22.5 after excluding radio-loud and potentially X-ray-absorbed quasars. The relation between the optical-to-X-ray power-law slope parameter (αOX) and the 2500 Å monochromatic luminosity (L2500Å) for this subsample is ${\alpha }_{{\rm{OX}}}=(-0.156\pm 0.007)\,{\rm{log}}\,{L}_{2500\,\mathring{\rm A} }+(3.175\pm 0.211)$ with a dispersion of 0.159. We found this correlation in good agreement with the correlations in previous studies. We explored several factors, which may bias the αOX-L2500Å relation, and found that their effects are not significant. We discussed possible evolution of the αOX-L2500Å relation with respect to L2500Å or redshift.
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© 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
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Quasars - X-ray surveys
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