Subaru High-zz Exploration of Low-luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs). XVII. Black Hole Mass Distribution at z∼6z \sim 6 Estimated via Spectral Comparison with Low-zz Quasars

We report the distribution of black hole (BH) masses and Eddingont ratios estimated for a sample of 131 low luminosity quasars in the early cosmic epoch ($5.6 < z < 7.0$). Our work is based on Subaru High-$z$ Exploration of Low-Luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs) project, which has constructed a low luminosity quasar sample down to $M_{1450} \sim - 21$ mag, exploiting the survey data of Hyper Suprime-Cam installed on Subaru Telescope. The discovery spectra of these quasars are limited to the rest-frame wavelengths of $\sim$ 1200 -- 1400 \AA, which contains no emission lines that can be used as BH mass estimators. In order to overcome this problem, we made use of low-$z$ counterpart spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which are spectrally matched to the high-$z$ spectra in overlapping wavelengths. We then combined the C~{\sc iv} emission line widths of the counterparts with the continuum luminosity from the SHELLQs data to estimate BH masses. The resulting BH mass distribution has a range of $\sim 10^{7-10} M_{\odot}$, with most of the quasars having BH masses $\sim 10^{8} M_{\odot}$ with sub-Eddington accretion. The present study provides not only a new insight into normal quasars in the reionization epoch, but also a new promising way to estimate BH masses of high-$z$ quasars without near-infrared spectroscopy.Comment: 18 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in Ap

Subaru High- z Exploration of Low-luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs). XVI. 69 New Quasars at 5.8 < z < 7.0

We present the spectroscopic discovery of 69 quasars at 5.8 0.1 in the HSC-SSP third public data release (PDR3). The sample reported here also includes three quasars with PQB 5.6. This demonstrates that the algorithm has very high efficiency, even though we are probing an unprecedentedly low luminosity population down to M 1450 ∼-21 mag.Y.M. was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI grant No. JP17H04830, No. 21H04494, and the Mitsubishi Foundation grant No. 30140. K.I. acknowledges support by the Spanish MCIN under grant PID2019-105510GB-C33/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and "Unit of excellence María de Maeztu 2020-2023" awarded to ICCUB (CEX2019-000918-M)

Subaru High-z Exploration of Low-luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs). XVII. Black Hole Mass Distribution at z ∼ 6 Estimated via Spectral Comparison with Low-z Quasars

We report the distribution of black hole (BH) masses and Eddingont ratios estimated for a sample of 131 low luminosity quasars in the early cosmic epoch (5.6 < z < 7.0). Our work is based on the Subaru High- z Exploration of Low-Luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs) project, which has constructed a low luminosity quasar sample down to M _1450 ∼ − 21 mag, exploiting the survey data of Hyper Suprime-Cam installed on Subaru Telescope. The discovery spectra of these quasars are limited to the rest-frame wavelengths of ∼1200–1400 Å, which contain no emission lines that can be used as BH mass estimators. In order to overcome this problem, we made use of low- z counterpart spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which are spectrally matched to the high- z spectra in overlapping wavelengths. We then combined the C iv emission line widths of the counterparts with the continuum luminosity from the SHELLQs data to estimate BH masses. The resulting BH mass distribution has a range of ∼10 ^7–10 M _⊙ , with most of the quasars having BH masses ∼10 ^8 M _⊙ with sub-Eddington accretion. The present study provides not only a new insight into normal quasars in the reionization epoch, but also a new promising way to estimate BH masses of high- z quasars without near-infrared spectroscopy

Sensitive Photodetection with Photomultiplication Effect in an Interfacial Eu^2+/3+ Complex on a Mesoporous TiO₂ Film

A simple device structure composed of an interfacial Eu^2+/3+ complex on a mesoporous TiO₂ film is developed by a solution process and acts as the high-performance photodetector with photomultiplication phenomena. The electron transfer from the photoexcited organic ligand, 2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridine (terpy), as a photosensitizer to TiO₂ is accelerated by the reduction level of Eu^3+/2+ ions chemically bonding among terpy and TiO₂, resulting in the generation of a large photocurrent. It is worth noting that its external quantum efficiency is in excess of 10⁵% under applied reverse bias. The corresponding responsivity of the device is also determined to be 464 A/W at an irradiation light intensity of 0.7 mW/cm² (365 nm), which is more than 3 orders of magnitude larger than those of inorganic photodetectors. A dark current of the device can be reduced to 10^–9 A/cm² by introducing a Eu oxide thin-film layer as a carrier blocking layer at the interface between transparent conducting oxide (TCO) and the TiO₂ layer, and the specific detectivity reaches 5.2 × 10¹⁵ jones at 365 nm with −3 V. The performance of our organic–inorganic hybrid photodetector surpasses those of existing ultraviolet photodetectors