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An Ultra-Luminous Quasar at z = 5.363 with a Ten Billion Solar Mass Black Hole and a Metal-Rich DLA at z ~ 5

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Wang, Feige
Wu, Xue-Bing
Fan, Xiaohui
Yang, Jinyi
Cai, Zheng
Yi, Weimin
Zuo, Wenwen
Wang, Ran
McGreer, Ian
Ho, Luis C.

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Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.

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We report the discovery of an ultra-luminous quasar J030642.51+185315.8 (hereafter J0306+1853) at redshift 5.363, which hosts a supermassive black hole with M<inf>BH</inf> = (1.07 ± 0.27) × 1010 M<inf>⊙</inf>. With an absolute magnitude M<inf>1450</in

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Astrophysical Journal Letters

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