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在z>5.5时限制类星体的射电大声部分

Constraining the radio-loud fraction of quasars at z>5.5

E. Bañados, B. P. Venemans, E. Morganson, J. Hodge, R. Decarli, F. Walter, D. Stern, E. Schlafly, E. P. Farina, J. Greiner, K. C. Chambers, X. Fan, H-W. Rix, W.… 展开作者

E. Bañados, B. P. Venemans, E. Morganson, J. Hodge, R. Decarli, F. Walter, D. Stern, E. Schlafly, E. P. Farina, J. Greiner, K. C. Chambers, X. Fan, H-W. Rix, W. S. Burgett, P. W. Draper, J. Flewelling, N. Kaiser, N. Metcalfe, J. S. Morgan, J. L. Tonry, R. J. Wainscoat

摘要:

z~2-4的射电大活动星系核通常位于致密环境中,其宿主星系是这些红移处最大的系统之一,为星系演化提供了关键的见解。在最高可达红移(z~6)处发现射电噪类星体对于研究它们在更早的宇宙时间的性质和环境是很重要的。它们还将作为无线电巡天的背景源,目的是研究HI 21 cm吸收中再电离时期之后的星系间介质。目前,只有五个射电大声($R=f_{ν,5{\rm GHz}}/f_{ν,4400Å}>10$)类星体是已知的z~6。在本文中,我们寻找5.5 < z < 7.2类星体交叉匹配的光学泛星1和无线电第一次调查。无线电信息允许识别类星体错过了典型的基于颜色的选择。虽然我们在这些调查的灵敏度上没有找到好的6.4 < z <7.2类星体候选者,但我们在z~6处发现了两个新的射电大声类星体。此外,我们发现了两个额外的z~6射电响亮类星体,这是以前不知道的射电响亮,几乎是目前z~6样本的两倍。我们证明了对z>5.5的类星体进行红外测光的重要性,以便将它们有力地分类为无线电安静或无线电大声。在此基础上,我们重新分类类星体J 0203 +0012(z=5.72),以前被认为是无线电响亮,无线电安静。利用文献中已有的数据,我们用Kaplan-Meier估计将z~6处类星体的射电大声部分限定为$8.1^{+5.0}_{-3.2}\%$。这一结果与没有随红移而演化的射电大声部分相一致,与一些研究在较低红移时所提出的相反。

英文摘要:

Radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei at z~2-4 are typically located in dense environments and their host galaxies are among the most massive systems at those redshifts, providing key insights for galaxy evolution. Finding radio-loud quasars at the highest accessible redshifts (z~6) is important to study their properties and environments at even earlier cosmic time. They would also serve as background sources for radio surveys intended to study the intergalactic medium beyond the epoch of reionization in HI 21 cm absorption. Currently, only five radio-loud ($R=f_{ν,5{\rm GHz}}/f_{ν,4400Å}>10$) quasars are known at z~6. In this paper we search for 5.5 < z < 7.2 quasars by cross-matching the optical Pan-STARRS1 and radio FIRST surveys. The radio information allows identification of quasars missed by typical color-based selections. While we find no good 6.4 < z <7.2 quasar candidates at the sensitivities of these surveys, we discover two new radio-loud quasars at z~6. Furthermore, we identify two additional z~6 radio-loud quasars which were not previously known to be radio-loud, nearly doubling the current z~6 sample. We show the importance of having infrared photometry for z>5.5 quasars to robustly classify them as radio-quiet or radio-loud. Based on this, we reclassify the quasar J0203+0012 (z=5.72), previously considered radio-loud, to be radio-quiet. Using the available data in the literature, we constrain the radio-loud fraction of quasars at z~6, using the Kaplan--Meier estimator, to be $8.1^{+5.0}_{-3.2}\%$. This result is consistent with there being no evolution of the radio-loud fraction with redshift, in contrast to what has been suggested by some studies at lower redshifts.

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