paper

Dust and the ultraviolet energy distribution of quasars

arXiv:astro-ph/0509733

Abstract

The ultraviolet energy distribution of quasars shows a sharp steepening of the continuum shortward of 1000 A (rest-frame). We describe how we came to consider the possibility that this continuum break might be the result of absorption by carbon crystallite dust grains.

Proceedings of Ninth Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics, San Antonio, to appear in RevMex Conf Series