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Accretion Disk Instabilities and the Quasar Luminosity Function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Aneta Siemiginowska*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Abstract

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We predict the quasar luminosity function (LF) from a population of sources with the activity driven by instabilities in an accretion disk. The ligth curve of a single source convolved with the mass distribution gives the quasar luminosity function at a given redshift. We model the observed LF at four different redshifts.

Type
Part 15. Poster Papers
Copyright
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