Quasar Clustering and the Lifetime of Quasars [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2001 ApJ Accepted (Feb 2001). 30 pages, 8 embedded ps figures, AASTEX5. Added discussion of quasar luminosity evolution. Also available at http://www.ociw.edu/~martini/pubs/
Paul Martini +2 more
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The Discovery of a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z = 6.51 [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2018 Strong gravitational lensing provides a powerful probe of the physical properties of quasars and their host galaxies. A high fraction of the most luminous high-redshift quasars was predicted to be lensed due to magnification bias.
Xiaohui Fan +19 more
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A Cosmological Framework for the Co-Evolution of Quasars, Supermassive Black Holes, and Elliptical Galaxies. I. Galaxy Mergers and Quasar Activity [PDF]
, 2007 We develop a model for the cosmological role of mergers in the evolution of starbursts, quasars, and spheroidal galaxies. By combining theoretically well-constrained halo and subhalo mass functions as a function of redshift and environment with empirical
P. Hopkins +3 more
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Quasars and Their Host Galaxies [PDF]
, 2006 This review attempts to describe developments in the fields of quasar and quasar host galaxies in the past five. In this time period, the Sloan and 2dF quasar surveys have added several tens of thousands of quasars, with Sloan quasars being found to z>6. Obscured, or partially obscured quasars have begun to be found in significant numbers.
A. Laor +81 more
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Some Constraints on Quasar Progenitors and Quasar Evolution [PDF]
Symposium - International Astronomical Union, 1986 There is strong evidence that quasars are powered by the gravitational energy released by in fall of matter into a compact supermassive object which is most likely a black hole with mass M>106 to 109MO. The question then arises as to how such massive black holes came to be formed. What sort of objects were the progenitors?
C. Sivaram
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On the Role of the Environments and Star Formation for Quasar Activity [PDF]
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2017 We investigate the host galaxy and environment properties of a sample of 400 low z (<0.5) quasars that were imaged in the SDSS Stripe82. We can detect and study the properties of the host galaxy for more than 75% of the data sample.
Daniela Bettoni +4 more
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A Luminous Quasar at Redshift 7.642 [PDF]
, 2021 Distant quasars are unique tracers to study the formation of the earliest supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the history of cosmic reionization. Despite extensive efforts, only two quasars have been found at z ≥ 7.5, due to a combination of their low ...
Feige Wang +22 more
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2020 We present the final Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) quasar catalog from Data Release 16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS).
B. Lyke +36 more
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Probing Early Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Quasar Evolution with Near-infrared Spectroscopy of 37 Reionization-era Quasars at 6.3 < z ≤ 7.64 [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2021 We report the results of near-infrared spectroscopic observations of 37 quasars in the redshift range 6.3 < z ≤ 7.64, including 32 quasars at z > 6.5, forming the largest quasar near-infrared spectral sample at this redshift. The spectra, taken with Keck,
Jinyi Yang +20 more
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The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: BAO and RSD measurements from anisotropic clustering analysis of the quasar sample in configuration space between redshift 0.8 and 2.2 [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020 We measure the anisotropic clustering of the quasar sample from Data Release 16 (DR16) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). A sample of 343 708 spectroscopically confirmed quasars between redshift
Jiamin Hou +29 more
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