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Quasars Probing Quasars. X. The Quasar Pair Spectral Database [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2018 Abstract The rare close projection of two quasars on the sky provides the opportunity to study the host galaxy environment of a foreground quasar in absorption against the continuum emission of a background quasar. For over a decade the “Quasars probing quasars” series has utilized this technique to further the understanding of galaxy ...
Joseph R. Findlay +10 more
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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/
Martini, Paul, Weinberg, David H.
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THE PROPERTIES OF QUASAR HOSTS AT THE PEAK OF THE QUASAR ACTIVITY [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 We present near-infrared imaging obtained with ESO VLT/ISAAC of a sample of 16 low luminosity radio-quiet quasars at the epoch around the peak of the quasar activity (2 < z < 3), aimed at investigating their host galaxies. For 11 quasars, we are able to detect the host galaxies and derive their properties, while for the other five quasars, upper ...
Kotilainen J. K. +5 more
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Quasars Probing Quasars. I. Optically Thick Absorbers near Luminous Quasars [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2006 With close pairs of quasars at different redshifts, a background quasar sightline can be used to study a foreground quasar's environment in absorption. We search 149 moderate resolution background quasar spectra, from Gemini, Keck, the MMT, and the SDSS to survey Lyman Limit Systems (LLSs) and Damped Ly-alpha systems (DLAs) in the vicinity of 1.8 < ...
Hennawi, Joseph F. +13 more
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Two Close Separation Quasar-Quasar Pairs in the Large Bright Quasar Survey [PDF]
The Astronomical Journal, 1998 Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, Paper, 4 Figures + 1 ...
Hewett, Paul C. +3 more
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2014 AbstractAlthough the extragalactic nature of 3C 48 and other quasi stellar radio sources was discussed as early as 1960 by John Bolton and others, it was rejected largely because of preconceived ideas about what appeared to be unrealistically high radio and optical luminosities.
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A HUBBLE DIAGRAM FOR QUASARS [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 ApJ ...
Lusso E., RISALITI, GUIDO
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Quasar-galaxy associations [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1995 uuencoded Postscript file (including figures and tables), SUSSEX-AST 94/8 ...
Thomas, P. A. +2 more
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Science, 1986 In the quarter century since the first optical identification of a "radio star" (3C 48), astronomers have come to general agreement that the underlying quasar energy source is accretion onto a massive black hole. There is much less agreement on the detailed physics of the processes by which this energy is converted to the forms observed, but this has ...
Trimble, Virginia, Woltjer, Lodewijk
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Do Quasars Lens Quasars? [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 1997 If the unexpectedly high frequency of quasar pairs with very different component redshifts is due to the lensing of a population of background quasars by the foreground quasar, typical lens masses must be $\sim10^{12}M_{\sun}$ and the sum of all such quasar lenses would have to contain $\sim0.005$ times the closure density of the Universe.
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