Weak line quasars at high redshift: Extremely high accretion rates or anemic broad-line regions?

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 722, Issue 2 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Shemmer, Ohad ^a   Trakhtenbrot, Benny ^b   Anderson, Scott F ^c   Brandt, W N ^d   Diamond Stanic, Aleksandar M ^e   Fan, Xiaohui ^e   Lira, Paulina ^f   Netzer, Hagai ^b   Plotkin, Richard M ^g   Richards, Gordon T ^h   Schneider, Donald P ^d   Strauss, Michael A ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: nuclei; Quasars: emission lines; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649287921     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/722/2/L152     Document Type: Article

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