The VVDS type-1 AGN sample: the faint end of the luminosity function
Angela Bongiorno
(1)
,
G. Zamorani
(2)
,
I. Gavignaud
(3)
,
B. Marano
(1)
,
S. Paltani
(4)
,
G. Mathez
(5)
,
Palle Møller
(6)
,
J.-P. Picat
(5)
,
Michele Cirasuolo
(7)
,
Fabrice Lamareille
(2, 5)
,
D. Bottini
(8)
,
Bianca Garilli
(8)
,
V. Le Brun
(9)
,
Olivier Le Fèvre
(9)
,
D. Maccagni
(8)
,
R. Scaramella
(10)
,
Marco Scodeggio
(8)
,
Laurence Tresse
(9)
,
G. Vettolani
(10)
,
A. Zanichelli
(10)
,
C. Adami
(9)
,
S. Arnouts
(9)
,
Sandro Bardelli
(2)
,
M. Bolzonella
(2)
,
A. Cappi
(2)
,
Stéphane Charlot
(11, 12)
,
Paolo Ciliegi
(2)
,
Thierry Contini
(5)
,
S. Foucaud
(13)
,
P. Franzetti
(8)
,
L. Guzzo
(14)
,
Olivier Ilbert
(15)
,
Angela Iovino
(14)
,
Henry J. Mccracken
(12, 16)
,
Christian Marinoni
(17)
,
A. Mazure
(9)
,
Baptiste Meneux
(8)
,
R. Merighi
(2)
,
R. Pello
(5)
,
Agnieszka Pollo
(9, 18)
,
L. Pozzetti
(2)
,
M. Radovich
(19)
,
E. Zucca
(2)
,
E. Hatziminaoglou
(6)
,
M. Polletta
(20)
,
M. Bondi
(10)
,
J. Brinchmann
(21)
,
O. Cucciati
(14)
,
Sylvain de la Torre
(9)
,
L. Gregorini
(1)
,
Yannick Mellier
(12, 16)
,
P. Merluzzi
(19)
,
Sonia Temporin
(14)
,
D. Vergani
(8)
,
C. Jakob Walcher
(9)
1
UNIBO -
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna
2 OABO - INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna
3 AIP - Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
4 INTEGRAL Science Data Centre
5 LATT - Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes
6 ESO - European Southern Observatory
7 Edin. - University of Edinburgh
8 IASF-Milano - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica
9 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
10 IRA-INAF, Bologna
11 MPA - Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
12 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
13 UON - University of Nottingham, UK
14 INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
15 Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
16 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique
17 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332
18 Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonia University
19 INAF-OAC - INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
20 Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego
21 Universidade do Porto = University of Porto
2 OABO - INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna
3 AIP - Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
4 INTEGRAL Science Data Centre
5 LATT - Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes
6 ESO - European Southern Observatory
7 Edin. - University of Edinburgh
8 IASF-Milano - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica
9 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
10 IRA-INAF, Bologna
11 MPA - Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
12 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
13 UON - University of Nottingham, UK
14 INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
15 Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
16 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique
17 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332
18 Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonia University
19 INAF-OAC - INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
20 Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego
21 Universidade do Porto = University of Porto
Résumé
In a previous paper (Gavignaud et al. 2006, A&A, 457, 79), we presented the type-1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) sample obtained from the first epoch data of the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). The sample consists of 130 faint, broad-line AGN with redshift up to z=5 and 17.5