Sept 2026 Release Highlights

  • 221K sources from the literature were ingested, including 157K cross-matches with NED objects and 63K new objects, increasing NED objects with redshifts by 89K.
  • 10K SDSS DR18 Green Peas from Highly Efficient Identification of Extreme Emission-line Galaxies in the Local Universe: >8000 New Green Pea Candidates at 0.12 < z < 0.36 (Samonski, H., et al., 2026)
  • 5K QSOs and galaxies from A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pairwise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1(Hsu, Y.-M., et al., 2026)
  • 2K QSOs with spectroscopic redshifts from Galactic-scale Quasar Pairs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Gaia DR3(Jiang, Y., et al., 2026)
  • 91K spectroscopic redshifts from the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS; Scodeggio, M., et al., 2018)

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