Session 167. Quasars and Blazars

Oral, Thursday, January 13, 2005, 2:00-3:30pm, Royal Palm 1-3

167.01 Ancient Starbursts in Classical QSO Host Galaxies

G. Canalizo (UC Riverside, IGPP), A. Stockton (IfA, U Hawaii)

167.02 Evolution and Luminosity Dependendence of the Hosts of Radio-quiet Quasars

S.E. Ridgway, T. Heckman (JHU), M. Lacy (SIRTF, Caltech)

167.03 The SDSS-DR3 and 2dF-SDSS Quasar Luminosity Functions

G.T. Richards, M.A. Strauss (Princeton), S.M. Croom, M. Colless, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R.G. Sharp (AAO), B.J. Boyle (ATNF), X. Fan (Arizona), D.G. York (Chicago), P.J. Outram, T. Shanks, N. Ross (Durham), A. Meiksin (Edinburgh), S. Jester, C. Stoughton (Fermilab), A. Szalay (JHU), L. Miller (Oxford), D.P. Schneider, D.E. Vanden Berk (Penn State), R.C. Nichol (Portsmouth), A.D. Myers (Illinois), S.F. Anderson, Z. Ivezic (Washington), M. Drinkwater, K.A. Pimbblet, I.G. Roseboom (Queensland), SDSS Collaboration, 2SLAQ Collaboration

167.04D Examining Quasars at the Epoch of Peak Activity in the Universe -- methods for selection, observation, and application to the highest redshifts

K. Chiu (Johns Hopkins University)

167.05 Dust-obscured quasars selected from Spitzer's First Look Survey

M. Lacy (Spitzer Science Center), G. Canalizo (University of California, Riverside), S. Rawlings (University of Oxford), A. Sajina (University of British Columbia), E.L. Gates (UCO/Lick Observatory), L. Storrie-Lombardi, L. Armus (Spitzer Science Center)

167.06D The Character of Optical Variability for X-Ray Selected Blazars

A.M. Campbell (GSU,LSU), H.R. Miller (GSU)