X-ray lighthouses of the high-redshift universe: Probing the most luminous z > 4 palomar digital sky survey quasars with Chandra

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 2 1766, 2003, Pages 418-432

  Vignali, C ^a   Brandt, W N ^a   Schneider, D P ^a   Garmire, G P ^a   Kaspi, S ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: nuclei; Quasars: general; X rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141428991     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/345728     Document Type: Article

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