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The Subaru high-z quasar survey: discovery of faint z ~ 6 quasars

Authors :
Kazuhiro Shimasaku
Shogo Ishikawa
Nobunari Kashikawa
Yuu Niino
Pascale Hibon
Myungshin Im
Chris J. Willott
Hisanori Furusawa
Yoshifumi Ishizaki
Masami Ouchi
Jun Toshikawa
Masafusa Onoue
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
American Astronomical Society, 2014.

Abstract

We present the discovery of one or two extremely faint z~6 quasars in 6.5 deg^2 utilizing a unique capability of the wide-field imaging of the Subaru/Suprime-Cam. The quasar selection was made in (i'-z_B) and (z_B-z_R) colors, where z_B and z_R are bandpasses with central wavelengths of 8842A and 9841A, respectively. The color selection can effectively isolate quasars at z~6 from M/L/T dwarfs without the J-band photometry down to z_R<br />10 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....ae26a4d422dddefd6eeead11953962e1