What does the quasar luminosity function tell us about supermassive black hole evolution?

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 372, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1681-1691

  Wyithe, J Stuart B ^a   Padmanabhan, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Galaxies: formation

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; COSMOLOGY; GRAVITATION; LUMINANCE; RED SHIFT; STARS;

COSMOLOGY: THEORY; DARK MATTER HALOS; GALAXY FORMATIONS; HALO MASS; HIGH-REDSHIFT; LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS; MASS RATIO; PARAMETER SPACES; SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES; WORKING MODELS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 33750465478     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10985.x     Document Type: Review

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