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Do quasars evolve over cosmological time scales?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

E.J. Wampler  and
D. Ponz
E.J. Wampler
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-8046 Garching bei München Federal Republic of Germany
D. Ponz
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-8046 Garching bei München Federal Republic of Germany

Abstract

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Systematic biases that are redshift dependent can influence the optical discovery of quasars and the evolution laws derived from counts of quasars. New data and their interpretation for quasars brighter than MB = −24 in the Palomar Bright Quasar Survey (BQS) (Schmidt and Green, 1983) are consistent with no evolution. A comparison of BQS quasars with the brightest quasars from the CTIO Schmidt Telescope Survey (Osmer and Smith, 1980) shows that if qo is near zero, the co-moving density of bright quasars in a Friedmann cosmology is about 15 times higher for the CTIO survey quasars (mean z ≈ 2.8) than for the BQS quasars (mean z ≈ 1.8). In this case spectral evolution is also required since the CTIO quasars have stronger CIV λ1548 lines than the BQS quasars of similar luminosity. Alternatively, if qO is taken to be near 1, the CTIO survey quasars would then have lower luminosity than the BQS quasars and these data would be consistent with no evolution. Strong CIV λ1548 lines for the CTIO quasars would then fit the general correlation between absolute quasar luminosity and emission line strength (Wampler, Gaskell, Burke and Baldwin, 1984).

Type
V. Cosmological Studies, Clustering, Isotropy etc
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 119: Quasars , 1986 , pp. 439 - 445
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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