The final SDSS high-redshift quasar sample of 52 quasars at z > 5.7

Journal Article · Tue Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/222· OSTI ID:22869654

Jiang, Linhua; Wang, Feige; Wang, Ran; Wang, Shu; Wu, Jin; Wu, Xue-Bing; Yang, Jinyi; Yang, Qian ^[1]; McGreer, Ian D.; Fan, Xiaohui; Farnsworth, Kara ^[2]; Strauss, Michael A. ^[3]; Bañados, Eduardo ^[4]; Becker, Robert H. ^[5]; Bian, Fuyan ^[6]; Shen, Yue ^[7]

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1. Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
2. Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721 (United States)
3. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (United States)
4. Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101 (United States)
5. Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 (United States)
6. Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston Creek, ACT 2611 (Australia)
7. Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 (United States)

We present the discovery of nine quasars at z∼6 identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data. This completes our survey of z∼6 quasars in the SDSS footprint. Our final sample consists of 52 quasars at 5.7

• OSTI ID: 22869654
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 833, Issue 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0004-637X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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DENSITY
EMISSION
GALAXIES
LUMINOSITY
PHOTONS
QUASARS
RED SHIFT