1210.6389 (Nicholas P. Ross et al.)

The SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: The Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release Nine    [PDF]

Nicholas P. Ross, Ian D. McGreer, Martin White, Gordon T. Richards, Adam D. Myers, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Michael A. Strauss, Scott F. Anderson, Yue Shen, W. N. Brandt, Christophe Yeche, Molly E. C. Swanson, Eric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Dmitry Bizyaev, Jo Bovy, Howard Brewington, J. Brinkmann, Colin DeGraf, Tiziana Di Matteo, Garrett Ebelke, Xiaohui Fan, Jian Ge, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Rachel Mandelbaum, Claudia Maraston, Demitri Muna, Daniel Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Isabelle Paris, Patrick Petitjean, Kevin Schawinski, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, John D. Silverman, Audrey Simmons, Stephanie Snedden, Alina Streblyanska, Nao Suzuki, David H. Weinberg, Donald York

We present a new measurement of the optical Quasar Luminosity Function (QLF), using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-III: BOSS). From the SDSS-III Data Release Nine (DR9), we select a uniform sample of 22,301 i<=21.8 quasars over an area of 2236 sq. deg with confirmed spectroscopic redshifts between 2.2View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6389