EIGER III. JWST/NIRCam observations of the ultra-luminous high-redshift quasar J0100+2802

Abstract

We present the first rest-frame optical spectrum of a high-redshift quasar observed with JWST/NIRCam in Wide Field Slitless (WFSS) mode. The observed quasar, J0100+2802, is the most luminous quasar known at $z>6$. We measure the mass of the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) by means of the rest-frame optical H$\beta$ emission line, and find consistent mass measurements of the quasar's SMBH of $M_{\bullet }\approx 10^{10}{M}_{\odot }$ when compared to the estimates based on the properties of rest-frame UV emission lines CIV and MgII, which are accessible from ground-based observatories. To this end, we also present a newly reduced rest-frame UV spectrum of the quasar observed with X-Shooter/VLT and FIRE/Magellan for a total of 16.8 hours. We readdress the question whether this ultra-luminous quasar could be effected by strong gravitational lensing making use of the diffraction limited NIRCam images in three different wide band filters (F115W, F200W, F356W), which improves the achieved spatial resolution compared to previous images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope by a factor of two. We do not find any evidence for a foreground deflecting galaxy, nor for multiple images of the quasar, and determine the probability for magnification due to strong gravitational lensing with image separations below the diffraction limit of $\Delta \theta \lesssim 0.05^{\prime \prime }$ to be $\lesssim 2.2\times 10^{-3}$. Our observations therefore confirm that this quasar hosts a ten billion solar mass black hole less than $1$ Gyr after the Big Bang, which is challenging to explain with current black hole formation models.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in ApJ

References in corpus (44)

• SciPy 1.0--Fundamental Algorithms for Scientific Computing in Python
• Array Programming with NumPy
• emcee: The MCMC Hammer
• The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package
• The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra
• 3D-HST+CANDELS: The Evolution of the Galaxy Size-Mass Distribution since $z=3$
• Determining Central Black Hole Masses in Distant Active Galaxies and Quasars. II. Improved Optical and UV Scaling Relationships
• X-shooter, the new wide band intermediate resolution spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope
• An 800-million-solar-mass black hole in a significantly neutral Universe at redshift 7.5
• Formation of Supermassive Black Holes by Direct Collapse in Pregalactic Halos
• An Empirical Ultraviolet Template for Iron Emission in Quasars as Derived from I Zw 1
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release
• A Luminous Quasar at Redshift 7.642
• Gravitationally lensed quasars and supernovae in future wide-field optical imaging surveys
• Mass Functions of the Active Black Holes in Distant Quasars from the Large Bright Quasar Survey, the Bright Quasar Survey, and the Color-Selected Sample of the SDSS Fall Equatorial Stripe
• The Pan-STARRS1 distant z>5.6 quasar survey: more than 100 quasars within the first Gyr of the universe
• Second-Generation Objects in the Universe: Radiative Cooling and Collapse of Halos with Virial Temperatures Above 10^4 Kelvin
• Toward High-Precision Astrometry with WFPC2. I. Deriving an Accurate PSF
• Physical properties of 15 quasars at $z\gtrsim 6.5$
• Internal and Collective Properties of Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: H$\alpha$ and H$\beta$ Reverberation Measurements From First-year Spectroscopy and Photometry
• Black hole mass estimates and emission-line properties of a sample of redshift z>6.5 quasars
• Correcting CIV-Based Virial Black Hole Masses
• A Catalog of Quasar Properties from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16
• EIGER II. first spectroscopic characterisation of the young stars and ionised gas associated with strong H$\beta$ and [OIII] line-emission in galaxies at z=5-7 with JWST
• EIGER I. a large sample of [OIII]-emitting galaxies at $5.3<z<6.9$ and direct evidence for local reionization by galaxies
• CIV Emission Line Properties and Systematic Trends in Quasar Black Hole Mass Estimates
• MASE: A New Data--Reduction Pipeline for the Magellan Echellette Spectrograph
• The X-SHOOTER/ALMA sample of Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization. I. NIR spectral modeling, iron enrichment and broad emission line properties
• Evidence for Low Radiative Efficiency or Highly Obscured Growth of $z>7$ Quasars
• Spatially Resolved Interstellar Medium and Highly-Excited Dense Molecular Gas in the Most Luminous Quasar at z=6.327
• New Constraints on Quasar Evolution: Broad Line Velocity Shifts over $1.5\lesssim z\lesssim 7.5$
• Hyperaccreting black holes in galactic nuclei
• Kinematics of CIV and [OIII] emission in luminous high-redshift quasars
• Estimating the effective lifetime of the $z\sim 6$ quasar population from the composite proximity zone profile
• A New Iron Emission Template for Active Galactic Nuclei. I. Optical Template for the H$\beta$ region
• The velocity dispersion function of early-type galaxies and its redshift evolution: the newest results from lens redshift test
• Revisiting the Lensed Fraction of High-Redshift Quasars
• Observing the host galaxies of high-redshift quasars with JWST: predictions from the BlueTides simulation
• Constraining the Gravitational Lensing of $z\gtrsim 6$ Quasars from their Proximity Zones
• Truth or delusion? A possible gravitational lensing interpretation of the ultra-luminous quasar SDSS J010013.02+280225.8 at $z=6.30$
• A New Physical Picture for AGNs Lacking Optical Emission Lines
• A Generative Model for Quasar Spectra
• Reality or Mirage? Observational Test and Implications for the Claimed Extremely Magnified Quasar at $z=6.3$

Cited by in corpus (22)

• EIGER V. Characterizing the Host Galaxies of Luminous Quasars at $z\gtrsim 6$
• JWST early Universe observations and ΛCDM cosmology
• GA-NIFS: Black hole and host galaxy properties of two z$\simeq$6.8 quasars from the NIRSpec IFU
• XQR-30: Black Hole Masses and Accretion Rates of 42 z>6 Quasars
• A quasar-galaxy merger at $z\sim 6.2$: black hole mass and quasar properties from the NIRSpec spectrum
• Observability of Low-Luminosity AGN in the Early Universe with JWST
• A quasar-galaxy merger at $z\sim 6.2$: rapid host growth via accretion of two massive satellite galaxies
• Testing CCC+TL Cosmology with Observed BAO Features
• The accretion of a solar mass per day by a 17-billion solar mass black hole
• GA-NIFS and EIGER: A merging quasar host at z=7 with an overmassive black hole
• HYPERION. Coevolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies at $z>6$ and the build-up of massive galaxies
• Revisiting the Extreme Clustering of $z\approx 4$ Quasars with Large Volume Cosmological Simulations
• Large Scale Overdensity of Lyman Break Galaxies Around the z=6.3 Ultraluminous Quasar J0100+2802
• A lack of LAEs within 5Mpc of a luminous quasar in an overdensity at z=6.9: potential evidence of quasar negative feedback at protocluster scales
• Discovery and characterization of 25 new quasars at 4.6 < z < 6.9 from wide-field multi-band surveys
• HYPERION. Shedding light on the first luminous quasars: A correlation between UV disc winds and X-ray continuum
• Measuring the Virial Factor in SDSS DR7 AGNs with Redshifted H$\beta$ and H$\alpha$ Broad Emission Lines
• Shedding the envelope: JWST reveals a kiloparsec-scale [OIII]-weak Balmer shell around a z=7.64 quasar
• Low-Energy Neutrinos from Primordial Black Holes: A New Possibility for Observing Hawking Radiation
• High-Redshift Merger Model for Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Background
• A Super-Eddington, Lensing-Magnified Quasar at $z=5.07$ observed with JWST
• An Estimate of the Impact of Reionization on Supermassive Black Hole Growth