DES J0454-4448: Discovery of the First Luminous z > 6 Quasar from the Dark Energy Survey

S. L. Reed, R. G. McMahon, M. Banerji +59

We present the first results of a survey for high redshift, z $\ge$ 6, quasars using izY multi-colour photometric observations from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Here we report the…