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Table 7

Values of the parameters of the quasar luminosity function (Eqs. (9) and (11)).

log (Φ ∗ ) α l β l k 1l k 2l

–26.23 –5.84 –3.33 –1.41 0.02 –0.33
–26.36 ± 0.06 –5.89 ± 0.03 –3.50 ± 0.05 –1.43 ± 0.03 0.03 ± 0.02 –0.34 ± 0.01
α h β h k 1h k 2h

–3.33 –1.41 0.02 –0.33
–3.19 ± 0.07 –1.17 ± 0.05 –0.35 ± 0.13 –0.02 ± 0.14

Notes. The normalization of the luminosity function (Φ ∗ ) is given in Mpc-3mag-1. The top line gives the parameters published in C09 recalculated according to the definition of Eq. (11) and used to initialize our fit; the bottom line is for our best-fit model on the combined data set.

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