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Title: | Exploring Reionization-era Quasars. III. Discovery of 16 Quasars at 6.4 ≲ z ≲ 6.9 with DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey and Quasar Luminosity Function at z ∼ 6.7 | Authors: | Wang, Feige Yang, Jinyi Fan, Xiaohui Wu, Xue-Bing Yue, Minghao Li, Jiang-Tao Bian, Fuyan Jiang, Linhua Bañados, Eduardo Schindler, Jan-Torge Findlay, Joseph R. Davies, Frederick B. DECARLI, ROBERTO Farina, Emanuele P. Green, Richard Hennawi, Joseph F. Huang, Yun-Hsin Mazzuccheli, Chiara McGreer, Ian D. Venemans, Bram Walter, Fabian Dye, Simon Lyke, Brad W. Myers, Adam D. Haze Nunez, Evan |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Journal: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Number: | 884 | Issue: | 1 | First Page: | 30 | Abstract: | This is the third paper in a series aimed at finding reionization-era quasars with the combination of DESI Legacy imaging Surveys (DELS), the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Survey, and near-infrared imaging surveys, such as the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey (UHS), as well as the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mid-infrared survey. In this paper, we describe the updated quasar candidate selection procedure, report the discovery of 16 quasars at 6.4 ≲ z ≲ 6.9 from an area of ∼13,020 deg<SUP>2</SUP>, and present the quasar luminosity function (QLF) at z ∼ 6.7. The measured QLF follows {{Φ }}({L}<SUB>1450</SUB>)\propto {L}<SUB>1450</SUB><SUP>-2.35</SUP> in the magnitude range -27.6 < M <SUB>1450</SUB> < -25.5. We determine the quasar comoving spatial density at < z> = 6.7 and M <SUB>1450</SUB> < -26.0 to be 0.39 ± 0.11 Gpc<SUP>-3</SUP> and find the exponential density evolution parameter to be k = -0.78 ± 0.18 from z ∼ 6 to z ∼ 6.7, corresponding to a rapid decline by a factor of ∼6 per unit redshift toward earlier epochs. This indicates that the rapid decline of quasar spatial density at z > 5 that was found by previous works continues to z > 6, at a rate significantly faster than the average decline rate between z ∼ 3 and 5. We measured quasar comoving emissivity at z ∼ 6.7, which indicates that high-redshift quasars are highly unlikely to make a significant contribution to hydrogen reionization. The broad absorption line quasar fraction at z ≳ 6.5 is measured to be ≳22%. In addition, we also report the discovery of six additional quasars at z ∼ 6 in the Appendix. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/28651 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2be5 | ISSN: | 0004-637X | DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2be5 | Bibcode ADS: | 2019ApJ...884...30W | Fulltext: | open |
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