A Survey of z > 5.8 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Discovery of Three New Quasars and the Spatial Density of Luminous Quasars at z ∼ 6
@article{Fan2001ASO, title={A Survey of z > 5.8 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Discovery of Three New Quasars and the Spatial Density of Luminous Quasars at z ∼ 6}, author={Xiaohui Fan and Vijay K. Narayanan and Robert H. Lupton and Michael A. Strauss and Gillian R. Knapp and Robert H. Becker and Richard L. White and Laura Pentericci and Sandy K. Leggett and Zolt{\'a}n Haiman and James E. Gunn and Željko Ivezi{\'c} and Donald P. Schneider and Scott F. Anderson and Jonathan Brinkmann and Neta A. Bahcall and Andrew J. Connolly and Istv{\'a}n Csabai and Mamoru Doi and Masataka Fukugita and Thomas R. Geballe and Eva K. Grebel and Daniel R. Harbeck and Gregory S. Hennessy and Donald Q. Lamb and Gajus A. Miknaitis and Jeffrey A. Munn and Robert C. Nichol and Sadanori Okamura and Jeffrey R. Pier and Francisco Prada and Gordon T. Richards and Alexander S. Szalay and Donald G. York}, journal={The Astronomical Journal}, year={2001}, volume={122}, pages={2833 - 2849} }
We present the results from a survey of i-dropout objects selected from ∼1550 deg2 of multicolor imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to search for luminous quasars at z ≳ 5.8. Objects with i*-z* > 2.2 and z* < 20.2 are selected, and follow-up J-band photometry is used to separate L- and T-type cool dwarfs from high-redshift quasars. We describe the discovery of three new quasars, SDSSp J083643.85+005453.3 (z = 5.82), J130608.26+035626.3 (z = 5.99), and J103027.10+052455.0 (z = 6.28…
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