A snapshot survey for gravitational lenses among z ≥ 4.0 quasars. II. Constraints on the 4.0 < z < 5.4 quasar population

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-54

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

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early universe; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; Gravitational lensing; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 31544434305     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498063     Document Type: Article

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