A Survey ofz > 5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. IV. Discovery of Seven Additional Quasars
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- 1 March 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astronomical Journal
- Vol. 131 (3) , 1203-1209
- https://doi.org/10.1086/500296
Abstract
We present the discovery of seven quasars at z > 5.7, selected from ~2000 deg2 of multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The new quasars have redshifts z from 5.79 to 6.13. Five are selected as part of a complete flux-limited sample in the SDSS northern Galactic cap; two have larger photometric errors and are not part of the complete sample. One of the new quasars, SDSS J1335+3533 (z = 5.93), exhibits no emission lines; the 3 σ limit on the rest-frame equivalent width of the Lyα+N V line is 5 Å. It is the highest redshift lineless quasar known and could be a gravitational lensed galaxy, a BL Lac object, or a new type of quasar. Two new z > 6 quasars, SDSS 1250+3130 (z = 6.13) and SDSS J1137+3549 (z = 6.01), show deep Gunn-Peterson absorption gaps in Lyα. These gaps are narrower than the complete Gunn-Peterson absorption troughs observed among quasars at z > 6.2 and do not have complete Lyβ absorption.Keywords
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