A sample of radio-loud QSOs at redshift ~ 4

Details A sample of radio-loud QSOs at redshift ~ 4 A sample of radio-loud QSOs at redshift ~ 4

2003-11-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311127v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 348 (2004) 857

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 9 pages, Latex, 5 postscript figures, 1 landscape table (postscript)

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07423.x

We obtained spectra of 60 red, starlike objects (E< 18.8) identified with FIRST radio sources, S_{1.4GHz} > 1 mJy. Eight are QSOs with redshift z> 3.6.Combined with our pilot search (Benn et al 2002), our sample of 121 candidates yields a total of 18 z > 3.6 QSOs (10 of these with z > 4.0). 8% of candidates with S_{1.4GHz}< 10 mJy, and 37% of candidates with S_{1.4GHz}> 10 mJy are QSOs with z > 3.6. The surface density of E < 18.8, S_{1.4GHz} > 1mJy, z> 4 QSOs is 0.003 deg^{-2}. This is currently the only well-defined sample of radio-loud QSOs at z ~ 4 selected independently of radio spectral index. The QSOs are highly luminous in the optical (8 have M_B < -28, q_0 = 0.5, H_0 = 50 kms^{-1}Mpc^{-1}). The SEDs are as varied as those seen in optical searches for high-redshift QSOs, but the fraction of objects with weak (strongly self-absorbed) Ly alpha emission is marginally higher (3 out of 18) than for high-redshift QSOs from SDSS (5 out of 96).

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