The faint end of the quasar luminosity function at z ∼ 4: Implications for ionization of the intergalactic medium and cosmic downsizing

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 728, Issue 2 PART II, 2011, Pages

  Glikman, Eilat ^a   Djorgovski, S G ^b   Stern, Daniel ^c   Dey, Arjun ^d   Jannuzi, Buell T ^d   Lee, Kyoung Soo ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; Large scale structure of universe; Quasars: general; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960204589     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/728/2/L26     Document Type: Article

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