The SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: The Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release Nine

Nicholas P. Ross,Ian D. McGreer,Martin White,Gordon T. Richards,Adam D. Myers,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Michael A. Strauss,Scott F. Anderson,Yue Shen,W. N. Brandt,Christophe Yeche,Molly E. C. Swanson,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Dmitry Bizyaev,Jo Bovy,Howard Brewington,Jonathan Brinkmann,Colin DeGraf,Tiziana Di Matteo,Garrett Ebelke,Xiaohui Fan,Jian Ge,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Claudia Maraston,Demitri Muna,Daniel Oravetz,Kaike Pan,I Paris,Patrick Petitjean,Kevin Schawinski,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,John D. Silverman,Audrey Simmons,Stephanie A. Snedden,Alina Streblyanska,Nao Suzuki,David H. Weinberg,Donald G. York

The SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: The Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release Nine

2012

We present a new measurement of the optical Quasar Luminosity Function (QLF), using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-III: BOSS). From the SDSS-III Data Release Nine (DR9), we select a uniform sample of 22,301 i<=21.8 quasars over an area of 2236 sq. deg with confirmed spectroscopic redshifts between 2.2

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Halo
Quasar
Photometry (optics)
Baryon
Luminosity function
Sky
Astrophysics
Redshift
Luminosity
Physics

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