Mass functions of the active black holes in distant quasars from the large bright quasar survey, the bright quasar survey, and the color-selected sample of the sdss fall equatorial stripe

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 699, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 800-816

  Vestergaard, M ^a   Osmer, Patrick S ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049119971     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/699/1/800     Document Type: Article

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