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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 2. QUASAR INTRINSIC PROPERTIES
- - Absolute Magnitudes and
Luminosities
- - Redshifts
- - Quasar Spectral Energy
Distributions
- 3. SURVEY FUNDAMENTALS
- - The Optical Regime
- - The Wavelength Extremes
- 4. SCIENTIFIC GOALS AND SURVEY
REQUIREMENTS
- - Survey Type A: Find a Quasar
- - Survey Type B: Find Quasars
Consistently
- - Survey Type C: Find Quasars
Consistently and Predict What Will Not Be Found
- 5. SURVEY QUANTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS
- - Completeness
- - Survey Quantification
- - Analysis and Models
- 6. PRACTICALITIES AND CAVEATS
- - Magnitudes and Fluxes
- - Spectroscopic Identification
- - Quasar Photometric Variability
- 7. THE QUASAR LUMINOSITY FUNCTION:
CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
- - The Standard Picture
- - Luminous Quasars at Low
Redshifts
- - High Redshifts
- - The X-ray Luminosity Function
- - Quasar Spectral Energy
Distributions
- 8. SUMMARY
- REFERENCES