Exploratory Chandra Observations of the Three Highest Redshift Quasars Known
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
We report on exploratory Chandra observations of the three highest redshift quasars known (z = 5.82, 5.99, and 6.28), all found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These data, combined with a previous XMM-Newton observation of a z = 5.74 quasar, form a complete set of color-selected, z > 5.7 quasars. X-ray emission is detected from all of the quasars at levels that indicate that the X-ray to optical flux ratios of z ~ 6 optically selected quasars are similar to those of lower redshift quasars. The observations demonstrate that it will be feasible to obtain quality X-ray spectra of z ~ 6 quasars with current and future X-ray missions.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0202235,
title = {Exploratory Chandra Observations of the Three Highest Redshift Quasars Known},
author = {W. N. Brandt and D. P. Schneider and X. Fan and M. A. Strauss and J. E. Gunn and G. T. Richards and S. F. Anderson and D. E. Vanden Berk and N. A. Bahcall and J. Brinkmann and R. Brunner and B. Chen and G. S. Hennessy and D. Q. Lamb and W. Voges and D. G. York},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0202235},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, ApJL, in press; small revisions to address referee Comments