Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad-line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function - Kelly, Brandon C; Vestergaard, Marianne; Fan, Xiaohui; Hopkins, Philip; Hernquist, Lars; Siemiginowska, Aneta (The Astrophysical journal, 2010)
Keywords: Astronomy; ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; BLACK HOLES; COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; GALAXIES; GALAXY NUCLEI; LUMINOSITY; MASS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUASARS; RED SHIFT; Quasars; Lower bound; Red shift; Uncertainty; quasars: general; Accretion; Black holes; Accretion rate; Lifetime; Mass function; black hole physics; Feedback; galaxies: active; galaxies: statistics; Mass ratio; Cosmology; Models; galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; galaxies: nuclei; Sky surveys; Massive black hole