Expected z>5 QSO number counts in large area deep near-infrared surveys

Details Expected z>5 QSO number counts in large area deep near-infrared surveys Expected z>5 QSO number counts in large area deep near-infrared surveys

2007-11-09

arxiv.org/abs/0711.1440v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables. Comparison with X-ray surveys added. astro-ph only

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The QSO luminosity function at z>5 provides strong constraints on models of joint evolution of QSO and their hosts. However, these observations are challenging because the low space densities of these objects necessitate surveying of large areas, in order to obtain statistically meaningful samples, while at the same time cosmological redshifting and dimming means that rather deep Near Infrared (NIR) imaging must be carried out. Several upcoming and proposed facilities with wide-field NIR imaging capabilities will open up this new region of parameter space. In this paper we present predictions for the expected number counts of z>5 QSOs, based on simple empirical and semi-empirical models of QSO evolution, as a function of redshift, depth and surveyed area. We compute the evolution of observed-frame QSO magnitudes and colors in a representative photometric system covering the wavelength range 550nm

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