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During a redshift survey of an infrared complete sample of galaxies recorded by the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) we have identified the IRAS source 00275–2859 as a quasar with a redshift of z = 0.28. The object looks stellar on both blue and red photographic plates, with an apparent optical magnitude J = 17.1 mag. It is a radio source. Its far infrared luminosity is 1.5 ×lO12L⊙, which exceeds both its optical and radio luminosity. This IRAS source is the second previously unidentified quasar selected through its infrared emission after IRAS source 13349 +24381. This suggests that the IRAS data contain a new class of quasars with strong internal reddening that possibly share the violent star formation activity of the most luminous IRAS objects.
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Vader, J., Simon, M. Discovery of an infrared-luminous quasar. Nature 327, 304–305 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/327304a0
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