High-redshift quasars found in sloan digital sky survey commissioning data. IV. Luminosity function from the fall equatorial stripe sample

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 54-65

  Fan, Xiaohui ^a,b   Strauss, Michael A ^a   Schneider, Donald P ^c   Gunn, James E ^a   Lupton, Robert H ^a   Becker, Robert H ^d   Davis, Marc ^e   Newman, Jeffrey A ^e   Richards, Gordon T ^c,f   White, Richard L ^g   Anderson Jr , John E ^h   Annis, James ^h   Bahcall, Neta A ^a   Brunner, Robert J ⁱ   Csabai, István ^j   Hennessy, G S ^k   Hindsley, Robert B ^l   Fukugita, Masataka ^b,m   Kunszt, Peter Z ^j   Ivezić, Željko ^a   Knapp, Gillian R ^a   McKay, Timothy A ⁿ   Munn, Jeffrey A ^o   Pier, Jeffrey R ^o   Szalay, Alexander S ^j   York, Donald G ^f   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g STScI   (United States)

^h FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^l NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^o FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Galaxies: Luminosity function, mass function; Quasars: General; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002604429     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318033     Document Type: Article

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