A SURVEY OF z ∼ 6 QUASARS IN THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY DEEP STRIPE. II. DISCOVERY OF SIX QUASARS AT zAB > 21

被引：153

作者：

Jiang, Linhua ^{[1
]}

Fan, Xiaohui ^{[1
,2
]}

Bian, Fuyan ^{[1
]}

Annis, James ^{[3
]}

Chiu, Kuenley ^{[4
]}

Jester, Sebastian ^{[2
]}

Lin, Huan ^{[3
]}

Lupton, Robert H. ^{[5
]}

Richards, Gordon T. ^{[6
]}

Strauss, Michael A. ^{[5
]}

Malanushenko, Viktor ^{[7
]}

Malanushenko, Elena ^{[7
]}

Schneider, Donald P. ^{[8
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[2] Max Planck Inst Astron, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

[3] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA

[4] CALTECH, Dept Astron, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[5] Princeton Univ, Dept Astrophys Sci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[6] Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

[7] Apache Point Observ, Sunspot, NM 88359 USA

[8] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

来源：

ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL | 2009年 / 138卷 / 01期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

cosmology: observations; quasars: emission lines; quasars: general; BLACK-HOLE MASSES; Z-SIMILAR-TO-6; QUASARS; LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; DATA RELEASE; TELESCOPE; EVOLUTION; SYSTEM; CAMERA; REIONIZATION; PIPELINE;

D O I：

10.1088/0004-6256/138/1/305

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We present the discovery of six new quasars at z similar to 6 selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along the celestial equator. The six quasars are about 2 mag fainter than the luminous z similar to 6 quasars found in the SDSS main survey and 1 mag fainter than the quasars reported in Paper I. Four of them comprise a complete flux-limited sample at 21 < z(AB) < 21.8 over an effective area of 195 deg(2). The other two quasars are fainter than z(AB) = 22 and are not part of the complete sample. The quasar luminosity function at z similar to 6 is well described as a single power law Phi(L-1450) proportional to L-1450(beta) over the luminosity range -28 < M-1450 < -25. The best-fitting slope beta varies from -2.6 to -3.1, depending on the quasar samples used, with a statistical error of 0.3-0.4. About 40% of the quasars discovered in the SDSS southern survey have very narrow Ly alpha emission lines, which may indicate small black hole masses and high Eddington luminosity ratios, and therefore short black hole growth timescales for these faint quasars at early epochs.

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页码：305 / 311

页数：7

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