High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data VI. Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectrograph Observations

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2001-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103228v1

Astron.J. 122 (2001) 503-517

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

34 pages, 7 figures, submitted to AJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/321168

We present results on over 100 high-redshift quasars found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using automated selection algorithms applied to SDSS imaging data and with spectroscopic confirmation obtained during routine spectroscopic operations of the Sloan 2.5-m telescope. The SDSS spectra cover the wavelength range 3900--9200 Angstroms at a spectral resolution of 1800, and have been obtained for 116 quasars with redshifts greater than 3.94; 92 of these objects were previously uncataloged, significantly increasing the current tally of published z>4 quasars. The paper also reports observations of five additional new z>4.6 quasars; all were found from the SDSS imaging survey and spectroscopically confirmed with data from the Apache Point Observatory's 3.5-m telescope. The i' magnitudes of the quasars range from 18.03 to 20.56. Of the 97 new objects in this paper, 13 are Broad Absorption Line quasars. Five quasars, including one object at a redshift of 5.11, have 20 cm peak flux densities greater than 1 mJy. Two of the quasars, both at z=4.5, have very weak emission lines; one of these objects is a radio source. Nineteen of the newly-discovered objects have redshifts above 4.6, and the maximum redshift is z=5.41; among objects reported to date, the latter is the third highest redshift AGN, and penultimate in redshift among luminous quasars.

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