PPT-Quasar Luminosity Functions at High

Redshifts Gordon Richards Drexel University With thanks to Michael Strauss Xiaohui Fan Don Schneider and Linhua Jiang Quasar Luminosity Function Croom et al 2004 Space density of quasars as a function of . Outline:. Motivation and Target Precision. Methods . 2010 Results. 2011 Requests & Strategy. High-. b . Experiments. S. White . LHC Performance Workshop. Chamonix, 27 January 2011. Acknowledgments: participants of the . Yue . Shen. Carnegie Observatories. In collaboration with Brandon . Kelly (UCSB). M. otivation. T. he abundance (and clustering) of quasars are key to understand the evolution of quasars/SMBHs in the hierarchical structure formation paradigm . With thanks to the members of the Quasar Working Group, particularly Don Schneider, . Xiaohui. Fan, Michael Strauss, Pat Hall, Dan . Vanden. . Berk. , Sebastian Jester, and . Scott Anderson, also Adam Myers. at . Brookhaven . National Laboratory . 1. Vl. adimir N. Litvinenko . for eRHIC team. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA. Center for Accelerator Science and Education. . Reionization. . . Chris . Carilli. (. M/N. RAO). Vatican Summer School June 2014. I. Introduction: Cosmic . Reionization. Concept . . Cool gas in z > 6 galaxies: quasar hosts. Constraints on evolution of neutral Intergalactic Medium (IGM). Paul Hewett (. IoA. , Cambridge). James Allen (U. Sydney). Outline. Motivation: . quasar . clustering, . host-galaxy and local quasar environment, relation . to Ly. α. -absorbers and the inter-galactic medium, outflow properties of quasars themselves. Outline:. Motivation and Target Precision. Methods . 2010 Results. 2011 Requests & Strategy. High-. b . Experiments. S. White . LHC Performance Workshop. Chamonix, 27 January 2011. Acknowledgments: participants of the . Division of Particle and Astrophysical Science, Nagoya University, JAPAN. with. SKA-Japan high-. z. galaxy and cosmology WG. East-Asia SKA core member meeting, 29 May, 2012, ASIAA, Taipei, Taiwan. Fluctuation, Stars, and Galaxies: Light and Shadow of the Cosmic Structure Formation through H. Reionization. . Chris . Carilli (NRAO). LANL Cosmology School, July . 2011. . Review: constraints on IGM during . reionization. CMB large scale polarization. Gunn-Peterson effect. Quasar near zones: . Gordon Richards. Drexel University. With thanks to. Michael Strauss, . Yue. . Shen. (Princeton), Don Schneider, Nic Ross (Penn State), Adam . Myers (Illinois. ), Phil Hopkins (. Berkeley. ), . and a host of other people from the SDSS Collaboration. Division of Particle and Astrophysical Science, Nagoya University, JAPAN. with. SKA-Japan high-. z. galaxy and cosmology WG. East-Asian SKA WS, 30 . Nov. .-2 Dec., 2011, KASI, . Daejeon. , Korea. Formation and Evolution of Galaxies:. Mark Kidger. European Space Agency. European Space Astronomy Centre. Herschel Science Centre. What is a Quasar?. Quasar is a contraction of . Quasi-Stellar Object. .. They are objects that look like faint, blue stars, but are really incredibly distant.. Fermilab. , 14-16 . Nov.2012. The . Higgs Boson Discovery. 4. th. July . 2012. Discovered Higgs-like Boson. : Clear mass peak in . gg. and ZZ*. 4. l. I. s this the SM one ? From searches to measurements. Charles L. Steinhardt. 1. , . Heng. . Hao. 2. , . Monica . Young. 3. , . Guido Risaliti. 4. , . Francesca . Civano. . Harvard-Smithsonian . Center. for Astrophysics. and. 1. IPMU, Univ. Tokyo; 2..