The UVX quasar optical luminosity function and its evolution

Details The UVX quasar optical luminosity function and its evolution The UVX quasar optical luminosity function and its evolution

1997-09-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9709019v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.293:107-112,1998

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, Latex, 3 postscript figures, to be published in MN

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01131.x

The recently-finished Edinburgh UVX quasar survey at B < 18 is used together with other complete samples to estimate the shape and evolution of the optical luminosity function in the redshift range 0.3 < z < 2.2. There is a significantly higher space density of quasars at high luminosity and low redshift than previously found in the PG sample of Schmidt & Green (1983), with the result that the shape of the luminosity function at low redshifts (z < 1) is seen to be consistent with a single power-law. At higher redshifts the slope of the power-law at high luminosities appears to steepen significantly. There does not appear to be any consistent break feature which could be used as a tracer of luminosity evolution in the population.

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