Discovery of 16 New z ~ 5.5 Quasars : Filling in the Redshift Gap of Quasar Color Selection

Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan, Xue-Bing Wu +13

We present initial results from the first systematic survey of luminous $z\sim 5.5$ quasars. Quasars at $z\sim$ 5.5, the post-reionization epoch, are crucial tools to explore the…