Quasar Research: A Joint Project of the University of Arizona and the Carnegie Institute of Washington

这项资助的研究是亚利桑那大学的C. B. Foltz、C. Impey和F. Chaffee以及华盛顿卡内基研究所的R. Weymann和S. Morris的一个非常成功的联合项目的延续。这些研究人员被广泛认为是各自领域的世界领导者，他们将使用广泛的、可量化的选择标准，完成对1000多个明亮类星体的光学调查。这种新的观测材料将用于进行许多以前不可能进行的研究。其中包括探测位于几个类星体前面的一个非常大的吸收器超星系团，研究类星体的射电和光功率之间的关系，以及类星体的非热光学特性与它们的VLBI射电发射之间的可能联系。

The research supported under this grant is the continuation of a very successful joint project of C. B. Foltz, C. Impey, and F. Chaffee of the University of Arizona, and R. Weymann and S. Morris of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. These investigators, widely considered to be world leaders in their field, will complete an optical survey of over 1000 bright quasars using broadly based and quantifiable selection criteria. This new observational material will be used to make a number of studies not previously possible. Among these will be a probe of a very large supercluster of absorbers lying in front of several quasars, studies of the relationship between radio and optical power in quasars, and investigations of possible links between nonthermal optical properties of quasars and their VLBI radio emission.