Broad-Line AGN at $3.5

arXiv - PHYS - Astrophysics of Galaxies Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI:arxiv-2409.06772

Anthony J. Taylor, Steven L. Finkelstein, Dale D. Kocevski, Junehyoung Jeon, Volker Bromm, Ricardo O. Amorin, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Bren E. Backhaus, Micaela B. Bagley, Eduardo Bañados, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Madisyn Brooks, Antonello Calabro, Oscar A. Chavez Ortiz, Yingjie Cheng, Nikko J. Cleri, Justin W. Cole, Kelcey Davis, Mark Dickinson, Callum Donnan, James S. Dunlop, Richard S. Ellis, Vital Fernandez, Adriano Fontana, Seiji Fujimoto, Mauro Giavalisco, Andrea Grazian, Jingsong Guo, Nimish P. Hathi, Benne W. Holwerda, Michaela Hirschmann, Kohei Inayoshi, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Yana Khusanova, Anton M. Koekemoer, Vasily Kokorev, Rebecca L. Larson, Gene C. K. Leung, Ray A. Lucas, Derek J. McLeod, Lorenzo Napolitano, Masafusa Onoue, Fabio Pacucci, Casey Papovich, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Nor Pirzkal, Rachel S. Somerville, Jonathan R. Trump, Stephen M. Wilkins, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Haowen Zhang

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We present a sample of 50 H-alpha detected broad-line active galactic nuclei (BLAGN) at redshifts 3.50), independent of the contributions of emission lines to the broadband photometry. We construct the black hole (BH) mass function at 3.5

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宽线 AGN 为 3.5 美元

我们提出了一个红移为 3.50 的 50 个 H-α 检测到的宽线活动星系核（BLAGN）样本，它与发射线对宽带测光的贡献无关。在计算了稳健的观测和衬线探测完整性修正之后，我们构建了 3.5

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