Astrophysical: Quasars

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    The ESO VISTA telescope and the VISTA Hemisphere Survey
    Survey operations with the VISTA telescope with it wide field near IR camera started in Feb 2010, following a science verification phase that started in Oct...
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    The ESPRESSO Redshift Drift Experiment: I. High-resolution spectra of the Lyman-α forest of QSO J052915.80-435152.0
    Context. The measurement of the tiny temporal evolution in the redshift of distant objects, the redshift drift, is a powerful probe of universal expansion and...
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    The European Large Area ISO Survey - VI. Discovery of a new hyperluminous infrared galaxy
    We report the discovery of the first hyperluminous infrared galaxy (HyLIG) in the course of the European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS). This object has been...
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    The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Variability selection and quasar luminosity function
    The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV/eBOSS) has an extensive quasar program that combines several...
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    The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Variability selection and quasar luminosity function (Corrigendum)
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    The Extended High A(V) Quasar Survey: Searching for Dusty Absorbers toward Mid-infrared-selected Quasars
    We present the results of a new spectroscopic survey for dusty intervening absorption systems, particularly damped Lyα absorbers (DLAs), toward reddened quasars...
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    The extent of the Mg II absorbing circumgalactic medium of quasars
    We investigate the extent and the properties of the Mg II cool, low-density absorbing gas located in the halo and in the circumgalactic environment of quasars...
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    The filling factor of intergalactic metals at redshift z= 3
    Observations of quasar absorption-line systems reveal that the z= 3 intergalactic medium (IGM) is polluted by heavy elements down to H I optical depths τH I≪ 10...
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    The First Billion Years project: birthplaces of direct collapse black holes
    We investigate the environment in which direct-collapse black holes may form by analysing a cosmological, hydrodynamical simulation that is part of the First...