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Discovery of an Optically-Faint Quasar at z=5.70 and Implications for the Faint End of the
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Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Discovery of an Optically-Faint Quasar at z = 5.70 and
Implications for the Faint End of the Quasar Luminosity Function
A. Mahabal1, D. Stern2, M. Bogosavljevic?1, S.G. Djorgovski1, D. Thompson1
ABSTRACT
We present observations of an optically-faint quasar, RD J114816.2+525339
(hereafter RD J1148+5253), discovered from deep multi-color observations of
the field around the z = 6.42 quasar SDSS J1148+5251. The two quasars have a
projected separation of 109′′ and both are outliers in r?z versus z?J color-color
space. Keck spectroscopy reveals RD J1148+5253 to be a broad-absorption line
quasar at z = 5.70. With zAB = 23.0, RD J1148+5253 is 3.3 mag fainter than
SDSS J1148+5251, making it the faintest quasar known at z 5.5. This object
was identified in a survey of ≈ 2.5 square degrees. The implied surface density
of quasars at these redshifts and luminosities is broadly consistent with previous
extrapolations of the faint end of the quasar luminosity function and supports
the idea that active galaxies provide only a minor component of the reionizing
ultraviolet flux at these redshifts.
Subject headings: early universe - quasars: individual (RD J114816.2+525339)
1. Introduction
The increasing optical depth of the Lyα forest in high-redshift quasars provided the
first evidence that the cosmic reionization epoch concluded at z ≈ 6, approximately 1 Gyr
after the Big Bang (Djorgovski et al. 2001; Becker et al. 2001). While active galaxies no
longer appear to be significant contributors to the reionization of the intergalactic medium
(e.g., Yan Windhorst 2004), quasars still provide essential probes of the ionization state
1Palomar Observatory 105–24, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125;
aam@astro.caltech.edu, milan@astro.caltech.edu, george@astro.caltech.edu, djt@irastro.caltech.edu
2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Techn
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