A CATALOG OF QSO CANDIDATES FROM A BVRI CCD SURVEY OF THE NORTH ECLIPTIC POLE

Twenty-five QSO candidates with B less-than-or-equal-to 22.0 have been selected from a 0.33 deg2 BVRI CCD survey of the North Ecliptic Pole. Those stellarlike objects which departed significantly from the locus defined by stars in a multicolor space were identified as candidates. We looked unsuccessfully for objects which might have been anomalousl y fainter than the limiting magnitude in one or more bands. Two of the candidates near the red end of the stellar locus may be M or K dwarf stars, and two candidates with V-I > 1.0 may be unresolved galaxies. T he completeness of the survey, estimated from the fraction of QSOs wit h colors indistinguishable from stars, is about 50% to B = 21.60. Cont amination by main-sequence stars, white-dwarf stars, blue-subdwarf sta rs, and galaxies is about 20%.