Adam D. Myers
Exploring Reionization-era Quasars. III. Discovery of 16 Quasars at 6.4 ≲ z ≲ 6.9 with DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey and Quasar Luminosity Function at z ∼ 6.7
Myers, Adam D.; Wang, Feige; Yang, Jinyi; Fan, Xiaohui; Wu, Xue-Bing; Yue, Minghao; Li, Jiang-Tao; Bian, Fuyan; Jiang, Linhua; Ba�ados, Eduardo; Schindler, Jan-Torge; Findlay, Joseph R.; Davies, Frederick B.; Decarli, Roberto; Farina, Emanuele P.; Green, Richard; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Huang, Yun-Hsin; Mazzuccheli, Chiara; McGreer, Ian D.; Venemans, Bram; Walter, Fabian; Dye, Simon; Lyke, Brad W.; Nunez, Evan Haze
Authors
Feige Wang
Jinyi Yang
Xiaohui Fan
Xue-Bing Wu
Minghao Yue
Jiang-Tao Li
Fuyan Bian
Linhua Jiang
Eduardo Ba�ados
Jan-Torge Schindler
Joseph R. Findlay
Frederick B. Davies
Roberto Decarli
Emanuele P. Farina
Richard Green
Joseph F. Hennawi
Yun-Hsin Huang
Chiara Mazzuccheli
Ian D. McGreer
Bram Venemans
Fabian Walter
Professor SIMON DYE Simon.Dye@nottingham.ac.uk
PROFESSOR OF ASTROPHYSICS
Brad W. Lyke
Evan Haze Nunez
Abstract
This is the third paper in a series aimed at finding reionization-era quasars with the combination of DESI Legacy imaging Surveys (DELS), the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Survey, and near-infrared imaging surveys, such as the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey (UHS), as well as the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mid-infrared survey. In this paper, we describe the updated quasar candidate selection procedure, report the discovery of 16 quasars at 6.4 z 6.9 from an area of ~13,020 deg2, and present the quasar luminosity function (QLF) at z ~ 6.7. The measured QLF follows in the magnitude range −27.6 < M 1450 < −25.5. We determine the quasar comoving spatial density at = 6.7 and M 1450 < −26.0 to be 0.39 ± 0.11 Gpc−3 and find the exponential density evolution parameter to be k = −0.78 ± 0.18 from z ~ 6 to z ~ 6.7, corresponding to a rapid decline by a factor of ~6 per unit redshift toward earlier epochs. This indicates that the rapid decline of quasar spatial density at z > 5 that was found by previous works continues to z > 6, at a rate significantly faster than the average decline rate between z ~ 3 and 5. We measured quasar comoving emissivity at z ~ 6.7, which indicates that high-redshift quasars are highly unlikely to make a significant contribution to hydrogen reionization. The broad absorption line quasar fraction at z 6.5 is measured to be 22%. In addition, we also report the discovery of six additional quasars at z ~ 6 in the Appendix.
Citation
Myers, A. D., Wang, F., Yang, J., Fan, X., Wu, X.-B., Yue, M., Li, J.-T., Bian, F., Jiang, L., Bañados, E., Schindler, J.-T., Findlay, J. R., Davies, F. B., Decarli, R., Farina, E. P., Green, R., Hennawi, J. F., Huang, Y.-H., Mazzuccheli, C., McGreer, I. D., …Nunez, E. H. (2019). Exploring Reionization-era Quasars. III. Discovery of 16 Quasars at 6.4 ≲ z ≲ 6.9 with DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey and Quasar Luminosity Function at z ∼ 6.7. Astrophysical Journal, 884(1), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2be5
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 20, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 8, 2019 |
Publication Date | Oct 10, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Oct 29, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 31, 2019 |
Journal | Astrophysical Journal |
Print ISSN | 0004-637X |
Electronic ISSN | 1538-4357 |
Publisher | American Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 884 |
Issue | 1 |
Article Number | 30 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2be5 |
Keywords | Early universe; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: high-redshift; Quasars |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2987443 |
Publisher URL | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2be5 |
Additional Information | Journal title: The Astrophysical Journal; Article type: paper; Article title: Exploring Reionization-era Quasars. III. Discovery of 16 Quasars at 6.4 ≲ z ≲ 6.9 with DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey and Quasar Luminosity Function at z ∼ 6.7; Copyright information: © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.; Date received: 2018-10-28; Date accepted: 2019-06-20; Online publication date: 2019-10-08 |
Contract Date | Oct 31, 2019 |
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