Determining the cosmological parameters from the linewidths of active galaxies
Abstract
We have previously shown that the linewidth distribution in AGN can be accounted for by an axisymmetric broad emission line region. In this paper we show that the linewidth distribution changes with redshift and that these changes are dependent on H0 and q0. We show that relatively small samples of AGN at high redshift with measured linewidth at half maximum can be used to distinguish between values of H0 and q0. Furthermore larger low redshift samples can be used to distinguish between luminosity functions and hence different models of quasar evolution.
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