The Pan-STARRS1 distant z>5.6 quasar survey: more than 100 quasars within the first Gyr of the universe
| Autor: | Ba��ados, E., Venemans, B. P., Decarli, R., Farina, E. P., Mazzucchelli, C., Walter, F., Fan, X., Stern, D., Schlafly, E., Chambers, K. C., Rix, H-W., Jiang, L., McGreer, I., Simcoe, R., Wang, F., Yang, J., Morganson, E., De Rosa, G., Greiner, J., Balokovi��, M., Burgett, W. S., Cooper, T., Draper, P. W., Flewelling, H., Hodapp, K. W., Jun, H. D., Kaiser, N., Kudritzki, R. -P., Magnier, E. A., Metcalfe, N., Miller, D., Schindler, J. -T., Tonry, J. L., Wainscoat, R. J., Waters, C., Yang, Q. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics FOS: Physical sciences Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1608.03279 |
| Popis: | Luminous quasars at z>5.6 can be studied in detail with the current generation of telescopes and provide us with unique information on the first gigayear of the universe. Thus far these studies have been statistically limited by the number of quasars known at these redshifts. Such quasars are rare and therefore wide-field surveys are required to identify them and multiwavelength data are needed to separate them efficiently from their main contaminants, the far more numerous cool dwarfs. In this paper, we update and extend the selection for z~6 quasars presented in Banados et al. (2014) using the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) survey. We present the PS1 distant quasar sample, which currently consists of 124 quasars in the redshift range 5.65.6 presented in this work almost double the quasars previously known at these redshifts, marking a transition phase from studies of individual sources to statistical studies of the high-redshift quasar population, which was impossible with earlier, smaller samples. Accepted by ApJS. Machine readable tables and an up-to-date census of z>5.6 quasars are available at https://users.obs.carnegiescience.edu/~ebanados/high-z-qsos.html |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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