Mass functions of the active black holes in distant quasars from the sloan digital sky survey data release 3

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 674, Issue 1 PART 2, 2008, Pages

  Vestergaard, M ^a,b   Fan, X ^b   Tremonti, C A ^b,c   Osmer, Patrick S ^d   Richards, Gordon T ^e  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Hubble Fellow ^*  (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: active galaxies: luminosity function; Mass function; Quasars: emission lines; Quasars: general; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049099912     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/528981     Document Type: Article

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