The Radio-Loud Fraction of Quasars is a Strong Function of Redshift and Optical Luminosity

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2006-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611453v1

Astrophys.J.656:680-690,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/510831

Using a sample of optically-selected quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we have determined the radio-loud fraction (RLF) of quasars as a function of redshift and optical luminosity. The sample contains more than 30,000 objects and spans a redshift range of 010 to define radio-loud quasars, we find that b_0=-0.132+/-0.116, b_z=-2.052+/-0.261, and b_M=-0.183+/-0.025. The RLF at z=0.5 declines from 24.3% to 5.6% as luminosity decreases from M_{2500}=-26 to M_{2500}=-22, and the RLF at M_{2500}=-26 declines from 24.3% to 4.1% as redshift increases from 0.5 to 3, suggesting that the RLF is a strong function of both redshift and luminosity. We also examine the impact of flux-related selection effects on the RLF determination using a series of tests, and find that the dependence of the RLF on redshift and luminosity is highly likely to be physical, and the selection effects we considered are not responsible for the dependence.

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