A spectroscopic survey of faint quasars in the SDSS deep stripe. I. Preliminary results from the co-added catalog

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2788-2800

  Jiang, Linhua ^a   Fan, Xiaohui ^a   Cool, Richard J ^a   Eisenstein, Daniel J ^a   Zehavi, Idit ^a   Richards, Gordon T ^b,c   Scranton, Ryan ^d   Johnston, David ^b   Strauss, Michael A ^b   Schneider, Donald P ^e   Brinkmann, J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; Quasars: general; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746788921     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503745     Document Type: Review

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