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Redshift Distribution of Quasi-Stellar Objects and the Radio Source Counts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Vahé Petrosian*
Affiliation:
Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., U.S.A.

Abstract

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The evolution of QSOs and the reality of their apparent cutoff for z > 2.3 is determined using their large scale redshift distribution. The contributions of QSRs to radio source counts are calculated on the basis of possible evolution of QSOs having z > 2.2.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1972 

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