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The Near and Mid-infrared photometric properties of known redshift z≥5 Quasars
Nicholas P. Ross, Nicholas J. G. Cross
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We assemble a catalogue of 488 spectroscopically confirmed very high (z≥5.00) redshift quasars and report their near- (ZYJHKₛ/K) and mid- (WISE W1234) infrared properties. 97\% of the VH$z$Q sample is detected in one or more NIR (ZYJHK/Kₛ) band, with lack of coverage rather than lack of depth being the reason for the non-detections. 389 (80\%) of the very high redshift quasars are detected at 3.4μm in the W1 band from the unWISE catalog and all of the z≥7 quasars are detected in both unWISE W1 and W2. Using archival WFCAM/UKIRT and VIRCAM/VISTA data we check for photometric variability that might be expected from super-Eddington accretion. We find 28 of the quasars have sufficient NIR measurements and signal-to-noise ratio to look for variability. Weak variability was detected in multiple bands of SDSS J0959+0227, and very marginally in the Y-band of MMT J0215-0529. Only one quasar, SDSS J0349+0034, shows significant differences between WFCAM and VISTA magnitudes in one band. With supermassive black hole accretion likely to be redshift invariant up to very high-redshift, further monitoring of these sources is warranted. All the data, analysis codes and plots used and generated here can be found at: https://github.com/d80b2t/VHzQ}{\tt github.com/d80b2t/VHzQ.
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