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Luminosity Function and Evolution of Optically Selected QSOs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Lutz Wisotzki
Lutz Wisotzki*
Affiliation:
Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany

Abstract

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I summarise a few recent results on the evolution of optically selected QSOs, with special emphasis on the notoriously difficult but physically important extremes at low and high luminosities and redshifts. It seems that quasar evolution is a more complex phenomenon than has often been assumed, and the new generation of surveys is just about to make this visible.

Type
Part 1. Optical Surveys for AGN
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 184: AGN Surveys , 2002 , pp. 59 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002

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