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Title: | The Discovery of a Highly Accreting, Radio-loud Quasar at z = 6.82 | Authors: | Bantados, Eduardo Mazzucchelli, Chiara Momjian, Emmanuel Eilers, Anna Christina Wang, Feige Schindler, Jan Torge Connor, Thomas Andika, Irham Taufik Barth, Aaron J. Carilli, Chris Davies, Frederick B. DECARLI, ROBERTO Fan, Xiaohui Farina, Emanuele Paolo Hennawi, Joseph F. PENSABENE, ANTONIO Stern, Daniel Venemans, Bram P. Wenzl, Lukas Yang, Jinyi |
Issue Date: | 2021 | Journal: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Number: | 909 | Issue: | 1 | First Page: | 80 | Abstract: | Radio sources at the highest redshifts can provide unique information on the first massive galaxies and black holes, the densest primordial environments, and the epoch of reionization. The number of astronomical objects identified at z > 6 has increased dramatically over the last few years, but previously only three radio-loud (R 2500 = f ν,5 GHz/f ν,2500 Å > 10) sources had been reported at z > 6, with the most distant being a quasar at z = 6.18. Here we present the discovery and characterization of PSO J172.3556+18.7734, a radio-loud quasar at z = 6.823. This source has an Mg ii-based black hole mass of ∼3 × 108 M o˙ and is one of the fastest accreting quasars, consistent with super-Eddington accretion. The ionized region around the quasar is among the largest measured at these redshifts, implying an active phase longer than the average lifetime of the z ⪆ 6 quasar population. From archival data, there is evidence that its 1.4 GHz emission has decreased by a factor of two over the last two decades. The quasar's radio spectrum between 1.4 and 3.0 GHz is steep (α = -1.31). Assuming the measured radio slope and extrapolating to rest-frame 5 GHz, the quasar has a radio-loudness parameter R 2500 ∼ 90. A second steep radio source (α = -0.83) of comparable brightness to the quasar is only 23.″1 away (∼120 kpc at z = 6.82; projection probability <2%), but shows no optical or near-infrared counterpart. Further follow-up is required to establish whether these two sources are physically associated. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/31710 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abe239 https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85103163979 |
ISSN: | 0004-637X | DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/abe239 | Fulltext: | open |
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