A Survey of<i>z</i> &gt; 5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. IV. Discovery of Seven Additional Quasars

Fan, Xiaohui; A. Strauss, Michael; T. Richards, Gordon; F. Hennawi, Joseph; H. Becker, R.; L. White, R.; M. Diamond‐Stanic, Aleksandar; L. Donley, J.; Jiang, Linhua; Serena Kim, Jinyoung; Vestergaard, M.; Young, Jason; E. Gunn, James; H. Lupton, Robert; R. Knapp, G.; P. Schneider, Donald; N. Brandt, W.; A. Bahcall, Neta; C. Barentine, John; Brinkmann, J.; Brewington, H.; Fukugita, M.; Harvanek, Michael; J. Kleinman, S.; Krzesiński, J.; Long, Dan; H. Neilsen, Eric; Nitta, A.; A. Snedden, Stephanie; Voges, W.

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A Survey ofz > 5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. IV. Discovery of Seven Additional Quasars

Published in The Astronomical Journal • Mar 1, 2006

Authors:

Xiaohui Fan

Michael A. Strauss

Gordon T. Richards

Abstract

We present the discovery of seven quasars at z > 5.7, selected from ∼2000 deg 2 of multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The new quasars have redshifts z from 5.79 to 6.13. Five are selected as part of a complete flux-limited sample in the SDSS northern Galactic cap; two have larg...

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Quasar

Sky

Astrophysics

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