Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-01-23
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 350 (2004) 449
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 Pages, 8 Figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07652.x
We present the results of a multi-colour (VIZ) survey for low luminosity (M_B<-23.5) quasars with z~5 using the 12K CCD mosaic camera on CFHT. The survey covers 1.8deg^2 to a limiting magnitude of m_z=22.5(Vega), about two magnitudes fainter than the SDSS quasar survey. 20 candidates were selected by their VIZ colours and spectra for 15 of these were obtained with GMOS on the Gemini North telescope. A single quasar with z=4.99 was recovered, the remaining candidates are all M stars. The detection of only a single quasar in the redshift range accessible to the survey (4.8<5.2) is indicative of a possible turn over in the luminosity function at faint quasar magnitudes, and a departure from the form observed at higher luminosities (in agreement with quasar lensing observations by Richards etal (2003)). However, the derived space densitys, of quasars more luminous than M_B(Vega)<-23.5, of 2.96x10^-7 Mpc^-3 is consistent at the 65% confidence level with extrapolation of the quasar luminosity function as derived by Fan etal (2001a) at m_i<19.6(Vega).
Crampton David
Hook Isobel M.
McMahon Richard G.
Sharp Rob G.
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