AAS 205th Meeting, 9-13 January 2005 Session 167 Quasars and
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Evolution and Luminosity Dependendence of the Hosts of Radio-
quiet Quasars  S.E. Ridgway, T. Heckman (JHU), M. Lacy (SIRTF,
Caltech)  The discovery that the nearest galaxies may all
contain supermassive black holes, and that the black hole mass
and galactic spheroid mass are strongly correlated, implies that
most bulge-dominated massive galaxies went through an early
quasar phase. Therefore, quasar activity is probably a natural
part of the evolution of typical early-type galaxies. To
investigate these links between the formation and evolution of
the AGN population and that of galaxies, we have been studying
the relationship between these populations at moderate and high
redshift, where the quasar luminosity function is reaching a
maximum. At z ~2 -- 3, we found that faint radio-quiet quasars
seem to be associated with L* galaxies, as opposed to the many
times L* galaxies associated with the r