Mining The Local Universe for Data: the QSO Luminosity Function with the Asiago-ESO/RASS QSO Survey

2000/07/04 by S. Cristiani, A. Grazian, Cristiani, S. +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0007033

4 pages Latex, with 3 PostScript figures. Proceedings of the Meeting "AGN nel 2000", Trieste 15-18 May 2000

arxiv created 2000/07/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We present progress results of a new survey for bright QSOs (V<14.5, R<15.4, B_J<15.2) covering the whole sky at |b|>30. The surface density of QSOs brighter than B_J=14.8 turns out to be 2.9 ± 0.8 ⋅ 10^-3 deg^-2. The optical Luminosity Function at 0.04 < z < 0.3 shows significant departures from the standard pure luminosity evolution, providing new insights in the modelling of the QSO phenomenon.

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