Q0906+6930: The Highest Redshift Blazar
The Astrophysical Journal2004Vol. 610(1), pp. L9–L11
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Abstract
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.
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