Supermassive Black Hole Activity in the Cosmic Evolution Survey

I investigate active supermassive black holes, also called active galactic nuclei (AGNs). My tool for this work is the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), a deep multiwavelength survey over 2 deg² of the sky. I describe the COSMOS AGN optical spectroscopy campaign, and present the largest AGN sample t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Trump, Jonathan Russell
Other Authors: Impey, Christopher D.
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194982