Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 15-Sep-2023)

Result of query: info cati CFHQS$

Details on Acronym:   CFHQS
  
CFHQS  (Canada-France High-z QSO Survey)
 Write:<<CFHQS  JHHMMSS+DDMMSS>>
 N:  4+6+9
Object:QSO  (SIMBAD class: QSO = Quasar)
  Note:Canada-France High-z Quasar Survey. CFHT MegaCam photometry.    Gemini South GMOS and Hobby-Eberly telescope LRS spectroscopy.
   Ref:=2007AJ....134.2435W
     byWILLOTT C.J.
, DELORME P., OMONT A., BERGERON J., DELFOSSE X., FORVEILLE T., ALBERT L., REYLE C., HILL G.J., GULLY-SANTIAGO M., VINTEN P., CRAMPTON D., HUTCHINGS J.B., SCHADE D., SIMARD L., SAWICKI M., BEELEN A., COX P.
 Astron. J., 134, 2435-2450 (2007)

    Four quasars above redshift 6 discovered by the Canada-France high-z
    quasar survey.
oTable 1: <CFHQS JHHMMSS+DDMMSS> N=4.
   Ref:=2009AJ....137.3541W
     byWILLOTT C.J.
, DELORME P., REYLE C., ALBERT L., BERGERON J., CRAMPTON D., DELFOSSE X., FORVEILLE T., HUTCHINGS J.B., McLURE R.J., OMONT A., SCHADE D.
 Astron. J., 137, 3541-3547 (2009)

    Six more quasars at redshift 6 discovered by the Canada-France high-z
    quasar survey.
oTable 1: <CFHQS JHHMMSS+DDMMSS> N=6 added.
   Ref:=2010AJ....139..906W
     byWILLOTT C.J.
, DELORME P., REYLE C., ALBERT L., BERGERON J., CRAMPTON D., DELFOSSE X., FORVEILLE T., HUTCHINGS J.B., McLURE R.J., OMONT A., SCHADE D.
 Astron. J., 139, 906-918 (2010)

    The Canada-France high-z quasar survey: nine new quasars and the
    luminosity function at redshift 6.
oTable 1: <CFHQS JHHMMSS+DDMMSS> N=9 added.
 Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)