Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of quasars at $z>6.5$: public data release and composite spectrum
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| author | Onorato, Silvia Hennawi, Joseph F. Schindler, Jan-Torge Yang, Jinyi Wang, Feige Barth, Aaron J. Bañados, Eduardo Eilers, Anna-Christina Bosman, Sarah E. I. Davies, Frederick B. Venemans, Bram P. Mazzucchelli, Chiara Belladitta, Silvia Vito, Fabio Farina, Emanuele Paolo Andika, Irham T. Fan, Xiaohui Walter, Fabian Decarli, Roberto Onoue, Masafusa Nanni, Riccardo |
| author_facet | Onorato, Silvia Hennawi, Joseph F. Schindler, Jan-Torge Yang, Jinyi Wang, Feige Barth, Aaron J. Bañados, Eduardo Eilers, Anna-Christina Bosman, Sarah E. I. Davies, Frederick B. Venemans, Bram P. Mazzucchelli, Chiara Belladitta, Silvia Vito, Fabio Farina, Emanuele Paolo Andika, Irham T. Fan, Xiaohui Walter, Fabian Decarli, Roberto Onoue, Masafusa Nanni, Riccardo |
| contents | We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic observations for a sample of $45$ quasars at $6.50 < z \leq 7.64$ with absolute magnitudes at $1450$ Å in the range $-28.82 \leq M_{1450} \leq -24.13$ and their composite spectrum. The median redshift and $M_{1450}$ of the quasars in the sample are $z_{\rm{median}}=6.71$ and $M_{1450,\rm{median}} \simeq -26.1$, respectively. The NIR spectra are taken with echelle spectrographs, complemented with additional data from optical long slit instruments, and then reduced consistently using the open-source Python-based spectroscopic data reduction pipeline PypeIt. The median of the mean signal-to-noise ratios per $110$ km s$^{-1}$ pixel in the J, H, and K band [median $\langle \rm{SNR}_λ \rangle$] is: median $\langle \rm{SNR}_{J} \rangle=9.7$, median $\langle \rm{SNR}_{H} \rangle=10.3$, and median $\langle \rm{SNR}_{K} \rangle=11.7$; demonstrating the good data quality. This work presents the largest medium/moderate-resolution sample of quasars at $z>6.5$ from ground-based instruments. Despite the diversity in instrumental setups and spectral quality, the data set is uniformly processed and well-characterized, making it ideally suited for several scientific goals, including the study of the quasar proximity zones and damping wings, the Ly$α$ forest, the intergalactic medium's metal content, as well as other properties such as the distribution of SMBH masses and Eddington ratios. Our composite spectrum is compared to others at both high and low-$z$ from the literature, showing differences in the strengths of many emission lines, probably due to differences in luminosity among the samples, but a consistent continuum slope, which proves that the same spectral features are preserved in quasars at different redshift ranges. |
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| spellingShingle | Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of quasars at $z>6.5$: public data release and composite spectrum Onorato, Silvia Hennawi, Joseph F. Schindler, Jan-Torge Yang, Jinyi Wang, Feige Barth, Aaron J. Bañados, Eduardo Eilers, Anna-Christina Bosman, Sarah E. I. Davies, Frederick B. Venemans, Bram P. Mazzucchelli, Chiara Belladitta, Silvia Vito, Fabio Farina, Emanuele Paolo Andika, Irham T. Fan, Xiaohui Walter, Fabian Decarli, Roberto Onoue, Masafusa Nanni, Riccardo Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic observations for a sample of $45$ quasars at $6.50 < z \leq 7.64$ with absolute magnitudes at $1450$ Å in the range $-28.82 \leq M_{1450} \leq -24.13$ and their composite spectrum. The median redshift and $M_{1450}$ of the quasars in the sample are $z_{\rm{median}}=6.71$ and $M_{1450,\rm{median}} \simeq -26.1$, respectively. The NIR spectra are taken with echelle spectrographs, complemented with additional data from optical long slit instruments, and then reduced consistently using the open-source Python-based spectroscopic data reduction pipeline PypeIt. The median of the mean signal-to-noise ratios per $110$ km s$^{-1}$ pixel in the J, H, and K band [median $\langle \rm{SNR}_λ \rangle$] is: median $\langle \rm{SNR}_{J} \rangle=9.7$, median $\langle \rm{SNR}_{H} \rangle=10.3$, and median $\langle \rm{SNR}_{K} \rangle=11.7$; demonstrating the good data quality. This work presents the largest medium/moderate-resolution sample of quasars at $z>6.5$ from ground-based instruments. Despite the diversity in instrumental setups and spectral quality, the data set is uniformly processed and well-characterized, making it ideally suited for several scientific goals, including the study of the quasar proximity zones and damping wings, the Ly$α$ forest, the intergalactic medium's metal content, as well as other properties such as the distribution of SMBH masses and Eddington ratios. Our composite spectrum is compared to others at both high and low-$z$ from the literature, showing differences in the strengths of many emission lines, probably due to differences in luminosity among the samples, but a consistent continuum slope, which proves that the same spectral features are preserved in quasars at different redshift ranges. |
| title | Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of quasars at $z>6.5$: public data release and composite spectrum |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07612 |