Three new VHS-DES quasars at 6.7 < z < 6.9 and emission line properties at z > 6.5

Reed, S L and Banerji, M and Desai, Shantanu and et al, . (2019) Three new VHS-DES quasars at 6.7 < z < 6.9 and emission line properties at z > 6.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487 (2). pp. 1874-1885. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

We report the results from a search for z > 6.5 quasars using the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data set combined with the VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS) and WISE All-Sky Survey. Our photometric selection method is shown to be highly efficient in identifying clean samples of high-redshift quasars, leading to spectroscopic confirmation of three new quasars - VDES J0244-5008 (z = 6.724), VDES J0020-3653 (z = 6.834), and VDES J0246-5219 (z = 6.90) - which were selected as the highest priority candidates in the survey data without any need for additional follow-up observations. We have obtained spectroscopic observations in the near-infrared for VDES J0244-5008 and VDES J0020-3653 as well as our previously identified quasar, VDES J0224-4711 at z = 6.50 from Reed et al. We use the near-infrared spectra to derive virial black holemasses from the full width at half-maximum of the MgII line. These black hole masses are ≃1-2 × 109M⊙. Combined with the bolometric luminosities of these quasars of Lbol ≃ 1-3 × 1047, these imply that the Eddington ratios are high, ≃0.6-1.1. We consider the C IV emission line properties of the sample and demonstrate that our highredshift quasars do not have unusual C IV line properties when compared to carefully matched low-redshift samples. Our new DES + VHS z > 6.5 quasars now add to the growing census of luminous, rapidly accreting supermassive black holes seen well into the epoch of reionization.

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IITH Creators:

IITH Creators	ORCiD
Desai, Shantanu	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0466-3288

Item Type:

Article

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Dark ages, reionization, first stars, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: formation, Galaxies: high-redshift, Quasars: individual: VDES J0020-3653, Quasars: individual: VDES J0224-4711, Quasars: individual: VDES J0244-5008, Quasars: individual: VDES J0246-5219

Subjects:

Physics

Divisions:

Department of Physics

Depositing User:

Team Library

Date Deposited:

05 Sep 2019 09:06

Last Modified:

05 Sep 2019 09:06

URI:

http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/6084