A snapshot survey for gravitational lenses among z ≥ 4.0 quasars. I. The z > 5.7 sample

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 127, Issue 3 1779, 2004, Pages 1305-1312

  Richards, Gordon T ^a   Strauss, Michael A ^a   Pindor, Bartosz ^a   Haiman, Zoltán ^a,b   Fan, Xiaohui ^c   Eisenstein, Daniel ^c   Schneider, Donald P ^d   Bahcall, Neta A ^a   Brinkmann, J ^e   Brunner, Robert ^f  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Early universe; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; Gravitational lensing; Quasars: general; Quasars: individual (SDSSp J104433.04 012502.2, SDSSp J083643.85+005453.3, SDSSp J130608.26+035626.3, SDSSp J103027.10+052455.0)

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142653056     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/381906     Document Type: Review

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