Searching for the Role of Mergers in Fast and Early SMBH Growth: Morphological Decomposition of Quasars and Their Hosts at $z\sim 4.8$

Marcus O. Thomas, Ohad Shemmer, Benny Trakhtenbrot +4

We present rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) images of six luminous quasars at $z\sim 4.8$ obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). These quasars exhibit a wide range of star for…