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联合巡天处理I:COSMOS场中的紧凑怪球--z > 6的低光度类星体?

Joint Survey Processing I: Compact oddballs in the COSMOS field -- low-luminosity Quasars at z > 6?

Andreas L. Faisst, Ranga Ram Chary, Sergio Fajardo-Acosta, Roberta Paladini, Benjamin Rusholme, Nathaniel Stickley, George Helou, John R. Weaver, Gabriel Bramme… 展开作者

Andreas L. Faisst, Ranga Ram Chary, Sergio Fajardo-Acosta, Roberta Paladini, Benjamin Rusholme, Nathaniel Stickley, George Helou, John R. Weaver, Gabriel Brammer, Anton M. Koekemoer, Hironao Miyatake

摘要:

类星体光度函数在z~6处的暗端斜率及其对类星体在早期星系际介质再电离中的作用的意义一直是一个突出的问题。识别亮度<1e44.5 erg/s的微弱高红移类星体是一项挑战。它们是罕见的(每平方度很少),这些未解决的类星体从晚型恒星和致密的恒星形成星系中分离出来,仅从地面观测是困难的。此外,在大于25等的情况下,源混淆变得很明显,当视宁度分辨率为~0.7”时,30%的源的通量被前景物体污染。我们通过对斯巴鲁/HSC和HST/ACS的地面和天基数据进行像素级联合处理来缓解这些问题。我们创建一个去融合目录在1.64平方度的COSMOS领域,占空间变化的PSF和天体测量两个数据集之间的差异后。根据ACS/F814 W和HSC/i波段的红色观测数据和空基观测数据中的致密性,我们确定了12个低光度(M_UV ~ -21 mag)z>6的类星体候选者。在哈勃DASH数据中未检测到我们的候选人反对晚型恒星的污染。我们对类星体光度函数在z~6.4处的暗端的限制表明,与恒星形成星系人口相比,对再电离的贡献小得可以忽略不计。我们的候选者的确认和红移的数量密度的演变可以更好地了解超大质量星系如何在宇宙时间的第一个十亿年中成长。

英文摘要:

The faint-end slope of the quasar luminosity function at z~6 and its implication on the role of quasars in reionizing the intergalactic medium at early times has been an outstanding problem for some time. The identification of faint high-redshift quasars with luminosities of <1e44.5 erg/s is challenging. They are rare (few per square-degree) and the separation of these unresolved quasars from late-type stars and compact star-forming galaxies is difficult from ground-based observations alone. In addition, source confusion becomes significant at >25mag, with 30% of sources having their flux contaminated by foreground objects when the seeing resolution is ~0.7". We mitigate these issues by performing a pixel-level joint processing of ground and space-based data from Subaru/HSC and HST/ACS. We create a deconfused catalog over the 1.64 square-degrees of the COSMOS field, after accounting for spatial varying PSFs and astrometric differences between the two datasets. We identify twelve low-luminosity (M_UV ~ -21 mag) z>6 quasar candidates through (i) their red color measured between ACS/F814W and HSC/i-band and (ii) their compactness in the space-based data. Non-detections of our candidates in Hubble DASH data argues against contamination from late-type stars. Our constraints on the faint end of the quasar luminosity function at z~6.4 suggests a negligibly small contribution to reionization compared to the star-forming galaxy population. The confirmation of our candidates and the evolution of number density with redshift could provide better insights into how supermassive galaxies grew in the first billion years of cosmic time.

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