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

这项资助的研究是华盛顿卡内基研究所的R.Weymann和S.Morris以及亚利桑那大学的C.Foltz、C.Impey和F.Chaffee非常成功的联合项目的继续。这些研究人员被广泛认为是各自领域的世界领先者，他们将利用基础广泛和可量化的选择标准，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被用来进行一些以前不可能进行的研究。其中包括对位于几个类星体前面的一个非常大的超星系团的探测，对类星体中射电和光功率之间关系的研究，以及对类星体非热光学性质与其VLBI射电发射之间可能联系的调查。

The research supported under this grant is the continuation of a very successful joint project of R. Weymann and S. Morris of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and C. Foltz, C. Impey, and F. Chaffee of the University of Arizona. 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.