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Q0906+6930: The Highest-redshift blazar

Jun, 2004

5 pages

Published in:

Astrophys.J.Lett. 610 (2004) L9-12

e-Print:

astro-ph/0406252 [astro-ph]

DOI:

10.1086/423201

Report number:

SLAC-PUB-10523

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Abstract: (arXiv)

We report the discovery of a radio-loud flat-spectrum QSO at z=5.47 with properties similar to those of the EGRET gamma-ray blazars. This source is the brightest radio QSO at z>5, with a pc-scale radio jet and a black hole mass estimate >10^{10}M_\odot. It appears to be the most distant blazar discovered to date. High energy observations of this source can provide powerful probes of the background radiation in the early universe.

galaxies: jets
quasars: general

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