Ultra-luminous high-redshift quasars from SkyMapper -- II. New quasars and the bright end of the luminosity function

Christopher A. Onken, Christian Wolf, Fuyan Bian +5

We search for ultra-luminous Quasi-Stellar Objects (QSOs) at high redshift using photometry from the SkyMapper Southern Survey Data Release 3 (DR3), in combination with 2MASS, VHS…