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  • The Discovery of a Luminous...
    Wang, Feige; Yang, Jinyi; Fan, Xiaohui; Yue, Minghao; Wu, Xue-Bing; Schindler, Jan-Torge; Bian, Fuyan; Li, Jiang-Tao; Farina, Emanuele P.; Bañados, Eduardo; Davies, Frederick B.; Decarli, Roberto; Green, Richard; Jiang, Linhua; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Huang, Yun-Hsin; Mazzucchelli, Chiara; McGreer, Ian D.; Venemans, Bram; Walter, Fabian; Beletsky, Yuri

    Astrophysical journal. Letters, 12/2018, Letnik: 869, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    Despite extensive efforts, to date only two quasars have been found at z > 7, due to a combination of low spatial density and high contamination from more ubiquitous Galactic cool dwarfs in quasar selection. This limits our current knowledge of the super-massive black hole growth mechanism and reionization history. In this Letter, we report the discovery of a luminous quasar at z = 7.021, DELS J003836.10-152723.6 (hereafter J0038-1527), selected using photometric data from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy Imaging Survey, Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) imaging Survey, as well as Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore mid-infrared all-sky survey. With an absolute magnitude of M1450 = -27.1 and bolometric luminosity of LBol = 5.6 × 1013 L , J0038-1527 is the most luminous quasar known at z > 7. Deep optical to near-infrared spectroscopic observations suggest that J0038-1527 hosts a 1.3 billion solar mass black hole accreting at the Eddington limit, with an Eddington ratio of 1.25 0.19. The C iv broad emission line of J0038-1527 is blueshifted by more than 3000 km s−1 relative to the quasar systemic redshift. More detailed investigations of the high-quality spectra reveal three extremely high-velocity C iv broad absorption lines with velocity from 0.08 to 0.14 times the speed of light and total "balnicity" index of more than 5000 km s−1, suggesting the presence of relativistic outflows. J0038-1527 is the first quasar found at the epoch of reionization with such strong outflows, and therefore provides a unique laboratory to investigate active galactic nuclei feedback on the formation and growth of the most massive galaxies in the early universe.