A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III: Discovery of Five Additional Quasars

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2004-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0405138v1

Astron.J.128:515,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

AJ in press (Aug 2004), 18 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/422434

We present the discovery of five new quasars at z>5.7, selected from the multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Three of them, at redshifts 5.93, 6.07, and 6.22, were selected from ~1700 deg^2 of new SDSS Main Survey imaging in the Northern Galactic Cap. An additional quasar, at redshift 5.85, was discovered by coadding the data obtained in the Fall Equatorial Stripe in the SDSS Southern Survey Region. The fifth object, at redshift 5.80, is selected from a non-standard SDSS scan in the Southern Galactic Cap outside the Main Survey area. The spectrum of SDSS J162331.81+311200.5 (z=6.22) shows a complete Gunn-Peterson trough at z_abs > 5.95, similar to the troughs detected in other three z>6.2 quasars known. We present a composite spectrum of the z>5.7 quasars discovered in the SDSS to date. The average emission line and continuum properties of z~6 quasars exhibit no significant evolution compared to those at low redshift. Using a complete sample of nine z>5.7 quasars, we find that the density of quasars with M_1450 < -26.7 at z~6 is (6+/-2) x 10^-10 per Mpc^3 consistent with our previous estimates. The luminosity distribution of the sample is fit with a power law luminosity function Psi(L) ~ L^(-3.2+/-0.7), somewhat steeper than but consistent with our previous estimates.

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