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astro-ph.GA2019★ 34 cited

The Third Data Release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey

Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Xiaohui Fan +45

The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) is a wide and deep imaging survey to cover a 5400 deg area in the Northern Galactic Cap with the 2.3m Bok telescope using two filters (…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 174 cited

Exploring Reionization-Era Quasars III: Discovery of 16 Quasars at with DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and UKIRT Hemisphere Survey and Quasar Luminosity Function at

Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan +22

This is the third paper in a series aims at finding reionzation-era quasars with the combination of DESI Legacy imaging Surveys (DELS) and near-infrared imaging surveys, such as th…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 18 cited

Quasars probing quasars X: The quasar pair spectral database

Joseph R. Findlay, J. Xavier Prochaska, Joseph F. Hennawi +8

The rare close projection of two quasars on the sky provides the opportunity to study the host galaxy environment of a foreground quasar in absorption against the continuum emissio…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 45 cited

Two more, bright, z > 6 quasars from VST ATLAS and WISE

B. Chehade, A. C. Carnall, T. Shanks +10

Recently, Carnall et al. discovered two bright high redshift quasars using the combination of the VST ATLAS and WISE surveys. The technique involved using the 3-D colour plane i-z:…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 93 cited

Molecular gas in three z~7 quasar host galaxies

Bram Venemans, Fabian Walter, Roberto Decarli +6

We present ALMA band 3 observations of the CO(6-5), CO(7-6), and [CI] 369micron emission lines in three of the highest redshift quasar host galaxies at 6.6<z<6.9. These measurement…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 88 cited

First Discoveries of z>6 Quasars with the DECam Legacy Survey and UKIRT Hemisphere Survey

Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan, Jinyi Yang +19

We present the first discoveries from a survey of quasars using imaging data from the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) in the optical, the UKIRT Deep Infrared Sky Survey (U…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 29 cited

The 2QDES Pilot : The luminosity and redshift dependence of quasar clustering

Ben Chehade, T. Shanks, J. Findlay +10

We present a new redshift survey, the 2dF Quasar Dark Energy Survey pilot (2QDESp), which consists of quasars from deg of the southern sky, base…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 198 cited

Bright [CII] and dust emission in three z>6.6 quasar host galaxies observed by ALMA

B. P. Venemans, F. Walter, L. Zschaechner +5

We present ALMA detections of the [CII] 158 micron emission line and the underlying far-infrared continuum of three quasars at 6.6<z<6.9 selected from the VIKING survey. The [CII]…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 94 cited

First discoveries of z~6 quasars with the Kilo Degree Survey and VISTA Kilo-Degree Infrared Galaxy survey

B. P. Venemans, G. A. Verdoes Kleijn, J. Mwebaze +12

We present the results of our first year of quasar search in the on-going ESO public Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) and VISTA Kilo-Degree Infrared Galaxy (VIKING) surveys. These surveys…