A hyperluminous obscured quasar at a redshift of z ~ 4.3

Abstract

In this work we report the discovery of the hyperluminous galaxy HELP_J100156.75+022344.7 at the photometric redshift of z ~ 4.3. The galaxy was discovered in the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field, one of the fields studied by the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP). We present the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the galaxy and fit it with the CYprus models for Galaxies and their NUclear Spectra (CYGNUS) multi-component radiative transfer models. We find that its emission is dominated by an obscured quasar with a predicted total 1-1000um luminosity of $3.91_{-0.55}^{+1.69}\times 10^{13}{L}_{\odot }$ and an active galactic nucleus (AGN) fraction of ~89%. We also fit HELP_J100156.75+022344.7 with the Code Investigating GALaxy Emission (CIGALE) code and find a similar result. This is only the second z > 4 hyperluminous obscured quasar discovered to date. The discovery of HELP_J100156.75+022344.7 in the ~ 2deg^2 COSMOS field implies that a large number of obscured hyperluminous quasars may lie in the HELP fields which cover ~ 1300deg^2. If this is confirmed, tension between supermassive black hole evolution models and observations will be alleviated. We estimate the space density of objects like HELP_J100156.75+022344.7 at z ~ 4.5 to be $\sim 1.8\times 10^{-8}$Mpc${}^{-3}$. This is slightly higher than the space density of coeval hyperluminous optically selected quasars suggesting that the obscuring torus in z > 4 quasars may have a covering factor $\gtrsim 50\%$.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. The CYGNUS models used in this work are available at https://arc.euc.ac.cy/cygnus-project-arc/

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