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QUASARS

Patrick S. Osmer

Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, 174 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA,
posmer@astronomy.ohio-state.edu

Abstract. I review recent results for quasars and discuss how they are related to activity in galaxies. Topics included are studies of quasar host galaxies with HST; searches for quasars in the Hubble Deep Field; evolution of the quasar luminosity function; news highlights from astro-ph; and current observational research problems and their relation to theoretical work.

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INTRODUCTION

HISTORY

DEFINITIONS