The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the QSO luminosity function at 0.4<z<2.6

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2009-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/0907.2727v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

20 pages, 18 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. The data on which this paper is based can be accessed at http://www.2

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We present the QSO luminosity function of the completed 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) survey, based on QSOs photometrically selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data and then observed spectroscopically using the 2dF instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. We analyse 10637 QSOs in the redshift range 0.420.0, as found previously by Richards et al. (2005). The luminosity function is consistent with other previous, much smaller, samples produced to the depth of 2SLAQ. By combining the 2SLAQ and SDSS QSO samples we produce a QSO luminosity function with an unprecedented combination of precision and dynamic range. With this we are able to accurately constrain both the bright and faint ends of the QSO LF. While the overall trends seen in the evolution of the QSO LF appear similar to pure luminosity evolution, the data show very significant departures from such a model. Most notably we see clear evidence that the number density of faint QSOs peaks at lower redshift than bright QSOs: QSOs with Mg>-23 have space densities which peak at z<1, while QSOs at Mg<-26 peak at z>2. By fitting simple luminosity function models in narrow Mg intervals we find that this downsizing is significant at the 99.98 per cent level (abridged).

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