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Constraining the quasar population with the broad-line width distribution

S. Fine, S. M. Croom, P. F. Hopkins +12

We measure the width of the MgII line in quasar spectra from the SDSS, 2QZ and 2SLAQ surveys and, by invoking an unnormalised virial mass estimator, relate the scatte…