Review Article

Mass Functions of Supermassive Black Holes across Cosmic Time

Figure 5

Broad-line AGN BHMFs at a variety of redshifts. Shown are the local BHMF estimated by Greene and Ho [118] (dashed magenta line), Kelly et al. [46] (dot-dashed green line), and Schulze and Wisotzki [121] (solid blue line). Also shown are the BHMFs estimated by Vestergaard et al. [119] (dashed red line) and Kelly et al. [115] (shaded region), where the shaded region for the Kelly et al. [115] estimate defines an approximate 95% confidence region. The BHMFs estimated by Greene and Ho [118] and Vestergaard et al. [119] are flux-limited BHMFs, as they did not fully correct for incompleteness in .
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