Discovery of eight z~6 quasars from Pan-STARRS1

Discovery of eight z~6 quasars from Pan-STARRS1

High-redshift quasars are currently the only probes of the growth of supermassive black holes and potential tracers of structure evolution at early cosmic time. Here we present our candidate selection criteria from the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System 1 and follow-up strategy t...

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Main Authors: Banados, E., Venemans, B. P., Morganson, E., Decarli, R., Walter, F., Chambers, K. C., Rix, H.-W., Farina, E. P., Fan, X., Jiang, L., McGreer, I., De Rosa, G., Weiss, A., Price, P. A., Morgan, Jeffrey S., Burgett, William S., Greiner, J., Kaiser, Nick, Kudritzki, R.-P., Magnier, Eugene A., Metcalfe, N., Stubbs, C. W., Sweeney, W., Tonry, J. L., Wainscoat, R. J., Waters, C., Simcoe, Robert A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92723
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-9559

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92723
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-9559

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