Discovery of 16 New z similar to 5.5 Quasars: Filling in the Redshift Gap of Quasar Color Selection

Yang, JY; Fan, XH; Wu, XB; Wang, FG; Bian, FY; Yang, Q; McGreer, ID; Yi, WM; Jiang, LH; Green, R; Yue, MH; Wang, S; Li, ZF; Ding, JN; Dye, S; Lawrence, A

Yang, JY (reprint author), Peking Univ, Sch Phys, Dept Astron, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China.; Yang, JY (reprint author), Peking Univ, Kavli Inst Astron & Astrophys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China.; Yang, JY (reprint author), Univ Arizona, Steward Obse

ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 2017; 153 (4):

Abstract

We present initial results from the first systematic survey of luminous z similar to 5.5 quasars. Quasars at z similar to 5.5, the post-reionization e......

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