Discovery of the most luminous quasar of the last 9 Gyr

Christopher A. Onken, Samuel Lai, Christian Wolf +8

We report the discovery of a bright (g = 14.5 mag (AB), K = 11.9 mag (Vega)) quasar at redshift z = 0.83 -- the optically brightest (unbeamed) quasar at z > 0.4. SMSS J114447.77-43…