Dust and the ultraviolet energy distribution of quasars
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The ultraviolet energy distribution of quasars shows a sharp steepening of the continuum shortward of 1000 A (rest-frame). We describe how we came to consider the possibility that this continuum break might be the result of absorption by carbon crystallite dust grains.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0509733,
title = {Dust and the ultraviolet energy distribution of quasars},
author = {Luc Binette and Christophe Morisset and Sinhue Haro-Corzo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0509733},
year = {2007}
}
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Proceedings of Ninth Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics, San Antonio, to appear in RevMex Conf Series