1. The Final SDSS High-Redshift Quasar Sample of 52 Quasars at z>5.7
- Author
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Xiaohui Fan, Eduardo Bañados, Feige Wang, Robert H. Becker, Jin Wu, Kara Farnsworth, Yue Shen, Michael A. Strauss, Shu Wang, Ran Wang, Jinyi Yang, Linhua Jiang, Qian Yang, Richard L. White, Xue-Bing Wu, Fuyan Bian, and Ian D. McGreer
- Subjects
media_common.quotation_subject ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Population ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Luminosity ,0103 physical sciences ,education ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Reionization ,Luminosity function ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,media_common ,Physics ,education.field_of_study ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Quasar ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Redshift ,Space and Planetary Science ,Sky ,Magnitude (astronomy) ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
We present the discovery of nine quasars at $z\sim6$ identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data. This completes our survey of $z\sim6$ quasars in the SDSS footprint. Our final sample consists of 52 quasars at $5.7, Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
- Published
- 2016