First discoveries of z > 6 quasars with the DECam Legacy Survey and UKIRT hemisphere survey

First discoveries of z > 6 quasars with the DECam Legacy Survey and UKIRT hemisphere survey

We present the first discoveries from a survey of z 6 quasars using imaging data from the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) in the optical, the UKIRT Deep Infrared Sky Survey (UKIDSS) and a preliminary version of the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey (UHS) in the near-IR, and ALLWISE in the mid-IR. DECaLS will i...

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Main Authors: Wang, Feige, Fan, Xiaohui, Yang, Jinyi, Wu, Xue-Bing, Yang, Qian, Bian, Fuyan, McGreer, Ian D., Li, Jiang-Tao, Li, Zefeng, Ding, Jiani, Dey, Arjun, Dye, S., Findlay, Joseph R., Green, Richard, James, David, Jiang, Linhua, Lang, Dustin, Lawrence, Andy, Myers, Adam D., Ross, Nicholas P., Schlegel, David J., Shanks, Tom
Format: Article
Published: IOP Publishing 2017
Subjects:
galaxies: active
galaxies: high-redshift
quasars: emission lines
quasars: general
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42338/

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