Luminosity function from dedicated SDSS-III and MMT data of quasars in 0.7 < z < 4.0 selected with a new approach

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Table 8

Predicted number of quasars over 15.5 < g < 25 and 0 < z < 6 for a survey covering 10 000 deg², based on our best-fit luminosity function.

g/z	0.5	1.5	2.5	3.5	4.5	5.5	Total

15.75	76	15	0	0	0	0	92
16.25	174	55	11	0	0	0	239
16.75	402	172	61	0	0	0	635
17.25	939	535	180	6	0	0	1661
17.75	2163	1630	508	21	1	0	4323
18.25	4740	4720	1409	57	2	0	10 928
18.75	9456	12 380	3784	156	5	0	25 781
19.25	16 612	27 796	9409	422	14	0	54 255
19.75	25 537	51 561	20 579	1128	39	1	98 846
20.25	35 185	80 209	38 096	2923	107	4	156 523
20.75	45 008	110 341	59 939	7085	289	10	222 671
21.25	54 980	141 918	82 650	15 386	779	27	295 740
21.75	64 988	176 959	103 733	28 916	2036	74	376 706
22.25	74 189	217 815	122 861	46 636	5064	201	466 766
22.75	80 370	266 716	141 310	65 652	11 408	545	566 001
23.25	79 024	325 945	160 621	82 972	22 419	1436	672 417
23.75	61 347	398 006	182 048	97 320	37 756	3632	780 110
24.25	15 976	480 676	206 510	109 295	55 090	8401	875 949
24.75	0	492 283	234 874	120 118	71 481	17 111	935 866

Total	571 169	2 789 734	1 368 583	578 092	206 489	31 444	5 545 510

Notes. Bins are centered on the indicated magnitude and redshift values. The ranges in each bin are Δg = 0.5 and Δz = 1.

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