Discovery of radio-loud quasars with z=4.72 and z=4.01

Details Discovery of radio-loud quasars with z=4.72 and z=4.01 Discovery of radio-loud quasars with z=4.72 and z=4.01

1998-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9801026v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS letters. 5 pages, 4 postscript figures. Uses mn.cls. Also available at http://panisse.lbl.

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01368.x

We report the discovery of two radio-loud quasars with redshifts greater than four; GB1428+4217 with z=4.72 and GB1713+2148 with z=4.01. This doubles the number of published radio-selected quasars with z > 4, bringing the total to 4. GB1428+4217 is the third most distant quasar known and the highest redshift radio and X-ray source currently known. It has a radio flux density at 5GHz of 259 +/- 31 mJy and an optical magnitude of R approximately 20.9. The rest frame absolute UV magnitude, M(nu=1450A), is -26.7 similar to that of the archetypal radio-selected quasar 3C273 (z=0.158; M(nu=1450A)=-26.4). GB1428+4217 has a tentative detection in ROSAT PSPC observations, which has been confirmed by more recent ROSAT observations, described in a companion paper by Fabian et al. Both quasars were discovered during the CCD imaging phase of an investigation into the evolution of the space density of radio-loud quasars at high redshift. Combined with our earlier survey results these objects give a lower limit on the space density of quasars with radio power P(5GHz) > 5.8 x 10^{26} W/Hz/sr between z=4 and z=5 of 1.4 +/- 0.9 x 10^{-10} Mpc^{-3}. This can be compared to 2.9 +/- 0.2 x 10^{-10} Mpc^-3 at z=2 from Dunlop & Peacock (1990) for flat-spectrum sources of the same luminosity.

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