Quasars are more luminous than radio galaxies - so what?
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Surveys to find high-redshift radio galaxies deliberately exclude optically-bright objects, which may be distant radio-loud quasars. In order to properly determine the space density of supermassive black holes, the fraction of such objects missed must be determined within a quantitative framework for AGN unification. I briefly describe the receding torus model, which predicts that quasars should have more luminous ionizing continua than radio galaxies of similar radio luminosity, and present evidence to support it. I also suggest two further tests of the model which should constrain some of its parameters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0301098,
title = {Quasars are more luminous than radio galaxies - so what?},
author = {Chris Simpson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0301098},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages. To appear in "Radio galaxies: past, present and future", eds M. Jarvis et al., Leiden, Nov 2002