Introduction

The first catalogue of quasars was published in 1971 by De Veny et al. It contained 202 objects for which redshifts were published prior to june 1971. In the last 29 years, the number of known quasars has steadily increased to reach 13$\,$214 in march 2000 (see table below).
This number is expected to increase dramatically in the near future as the ``2DF QSO redshift survey" has already identified close to 8$\,$000 QSOs (Smith et al. 1999) and the ``Sloan Digital Sky Survey" should discover $\sim100\;000$ QSOs when completed in about 2004 (Fan et al. 1999)

 

QSO BL Lac Seyfert 1 reference

202 De Veny et al. 1971

2251 190 Véron-Cetty & Véron 1984

2835 73 236 Véron-Cetty & Véron 1985

3473 84 258 Véron-Cetty & Véron 1987

4169 117 358 Véron-Cetty & Véron 1989

6225 162 575 Véron-Cetty & Véron 1991

7383 171 695 Véron-Cetty & Véron 1993

8609 220 888 Véron-Cetty & Véron 1996

11358 357 1111 Véron-Cetty & Véron 1998

13214 462 1711 present edition

In the present edition of this catalogue containing quasars with measured redshift known to us prior to march 1, 2000, as in the first eight editions, we do not give any information about absorption lines or X-ray properties. But we give the absolute magnitude for each object and, when available, the 11 and 6 cm flux densities.

This catalogue should not be used for any statistical analysis as it is not complete in any sense, except that it is, hopefully, a complete survey of the literature.