Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-02-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, one uuencoded compressed postscipt file (created with uufiles) including figures. MNRAS Letter, in press.
Scientific paper
We report the discovery of a radio loud quasar with a redshift of 4.30. This object, which is the first radio selected quasar with a redshift greater than four, was discovered during an observational investigation into the evolution of the luminosity function of radio loud quasars. Here we describe results based on a sample of ~300, flat spectrum radio sources with S(5GHz) > 200mJy. In this study, rather than carry out an indiscriminate redshift campaign on all the radio sources, we have used the APM POSS catalogue to preselect a subset of stellar-like optical counterparts with red optical colours. Such a subsample is expected to contain a high fraction of high redshift quasars. 10 of the ~300 sources were selected for follow-up optical spectroscopy and three of these are identified as quasars with redshifts greater than 3.0. One of the radio sources, GB1508+5714, is a quasar with z=4.30 and m(R)~19.
Browne I. W. A.
Hazard Cyril
Hook Isobel M.
Irwin Mary Jane
McMahon Richard G.
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