Dust and the ultraviolet energy distribution of quasars

2005/09/24 by L. Binette, Luc Binette, Binette, Luc +6
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0509733

Proceedings of Ninth Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics, San Antonio, to appear in RevMex Conf Series

arxiv created 2005/09/24 · openalex publication_date 2005/09/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The ultraviolet energy distribution of quasars shows a sharp steepening of the continuum shortward of 1000 A (rest-frame). We describe how we came to consider the possibility that this continuum break might be the result of absorption by carbon crystallite dust grains.

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