Discovering the missing 2.2 < z < 3 quasars by combining optical variability and optical/near-infrared colors

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Wu, Xue Bing ^a,b   Wang, Ran ^b   Schmidt, Kasper B ^c   Bian, Fuyan ^b   Jiang, Linhua ^b   Fan, Xiaohui ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

galaxies: active; quasars: emission lines; quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052746701     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/142/3/78     Document Type: Article

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