The discovery of the first luminous z~6 quasar in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey

B. P. Venemans, R. G. McMahon, S. J. Warren +5

We present the initial results from our search for high redshift, z > 6, quasars using near infrared data from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS).…