Publication: Weak bump quasars
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1989
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McDowell, Jonathan C., Martin Elvis, Belinda J. Wilkes, Steven P. Willner, M. S. Oey, Elisha Polomski, Jill Bechtold, and Richard F. Green. 1989. “Weak Bump Quasars.” The Astrophysical Journal 345 (October): L13. doi:10.1086/185540.
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The recent emphasis on big bumps dominating the UV continuum of quasars has obscured the facts that bump properties vary widely and that there are objects in which no such component is evident. As part of a survey of quasar continuum spectra, a class of quasars is identified in which the optical-UV continuum big bump feature appears to be weak or absent, relative to both IR and X-ray. These weak bump quasars are otherwise normal objects and constitute a few percent of the quasar population.
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Quasars, Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet Radiation, Color-Color Diagram, Spectral Energy Distribution, X Ray Spectra
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