Imaging of SDSS z>6 quasar fields: gravitational lensing, companion galaxies and the host dark matter halos

Abstract

We have undertaken deep optical imaging observations of three 6.2<z<6.5 quasar fields in the i' and z' filters. These data are used to search for foreground galaxies which are gravitationally lensing the quasars and distant galaxies physically associated with the quasars. Foreground galaxies are found closer than 5 arcsec from the lines-of-sight of two of the three quasars. However, the faintness of these galaxies suggests they have fairly low masses and provide only weak magnifications (mu<1.1). No convincing galaxies physically associated with the quasars are found and the number of i'-band dropouts is consistent with that found in random fields. We consider the expected dark matter halo masses which host these quasars under the assumption that a correlation between black hole mass and dark matter halo mass exists. We show that the steepness of the high-mass tail of the halo mass function at this redshift, combined with realistic amounts of scatter in this correlation, lead to expected halo masses substantially lower than previously believed. This analysis can explain the lack of companion galaxies found here and the low dynamical mass recently published for one of the quasars.

arXiv comment9 pages, 5 figures, ApJ, in press

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