A SPectroscopic Survey of Biased Halos in the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): A First Look at the Rest-frame Optical Spectra of z > 6.5 Quasars Using JWST [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 Studies of rest-frame optical emission in quasars at z > 6 have historically been limited by the wavelengths accessible by ground-based telescopes. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) now offers the opportunity to probe this emission deep into the ...
Jinyi Yang +55 more
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Target Selection and Validation of DESI Quasars [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey will measure large-scale structures using quasars as direct tracers of dark matter in the redshift range 0.9 < z < 2.1 and using Ly α forests in quasar spectra at z > 2.1.
Edmond Chaussidon +56 more
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EIGER. V. Characterizing the Host Galaxies of Luminous Quasars at z ≳ 6 [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We report JWST/NIRCam measurements of quasar host galaxy emissions and supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses for six quasars at 5.9 < z < 7.1 in the Emission-line galaxies and Intergalactic Gas in the Epoch of Reionization (EIGER) project. We obtain deep
Minghao Yue +8 more
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The Final SDSS High-Redshift Quasar Sample of 52 Quasars at z>5.7 [PDF]
, 2016 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.
Banados, Eduardo +16 more
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The Million Quasars (Milliquas) Catalogue, v8 [PDF]
The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 2023 Announcing the final release, v8, of the Milliquas (Million Quasars) quasar catalogue which presents all published quasars to 30 June 2023, including quasars from the first releases of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and the SDSS-DR18 ...
E. Flesch
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Quasars and the Intergalactic Medium at Cosmic Dawn [PDF]
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2022 Quasars at cosmic dawn provide powerful probes of the formation and growth of the earliest supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the Universe, their connections to galaxy and structure formation, and the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at the ...
Xiaohui Fan, E. Bañados, R. Simcoe
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Gravitationally lensed quasars in Gaia – IV. 150 new lenses, quasar pairs, and projected quasars [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022 We report the spectroscopic follow-up of 175 lensed quasar candidates selected using Gaia Data Release 2 observations following Lemon et al. 2019. Systems include 86 confirmed lensed quasars and a further 17 likely lensed quasars based on imaging and ...
C. Lemon +12 more
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Probing Early Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Quasar Evolution with Near-infrared Spectroscopy of 37 Reionization-era Quasars at 6.3 < z ≤ 7.64 [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2021 We report the results of near-infrared spectroscopic observations of 37 quasars in the redshift range 6.3 < z ≤ 7.64, including 32 quasars at z > 6.5, forming the largest quasar near-infrared spectral sample at this redshift. The spectra, taken with Keck,
Jinyi Yang +20 more
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Detecting and Characterizing Young Quasars. III. The Impact of Gravitational Lensing Magnification
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We test the impact of gravitational lensing on the lifetime estimates of seven high-redshift quasars at redshift z ≳ 6. The targeted quasars are identified by their small observed proximity zone sizes, which indicate extremely short quasar lifetimes ( t ...
Minghao Yue +10 more
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2023 We report the fourth installment in the series of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) quasar survey, which includes quasars observed between 2017 September and 2021 June.
Jun-Jie Jin +12 more
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