Candidate #1: M1236+63
Variable, almost point-like source. VRI photometry from an
UH 2.2m image
shows this object to be blue (courtesy of H. Ebeling and D. Kocevski).
Keck spectroscopy (courtesy of R. Guhathakurta, G. Smith, A. Filippenko
and R. Chornock) confirms this is a high-z QSO.
Constructed: December 2001, by: Avishay Gal-Yam , E-Mail: avishay@wise.tau.ac.il