Abstract
In this work we report the discovery of the hyperluminous galaxy
HELP_J100156.75+022344.7 at the photometric redshift of z ~ 4.3. The galaxy was
discovered in the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field, one of the
fields studied by the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP). We present
the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the galaxy and fit it with the CYprus
models for Galaxies and their NUclear Spectra (CYGNUS) multi-component
radiative transfer models. We find that its emission is dominated by an
obscured quasar with a predicted total 1-1000um luminosity of
$3.91^+1.69_-0.55 10^13 L_ødot$ and an active galactic nucleus
(AGN) fraction of ~89%. We also fit HELP_J100156.75+022344.7 with the Code
Investigating GALaxy Emission (CIGALE) code and find a similar result. This is
only the second z > 4 hyperluminous obscured quasar discovered to date. The
discovery of HELP_J100156.75+022344.7 in the ~ 2deg^2 COSMOS field implies that
a large number of obscured hyperluminous quasars may lie in the HELP fields
which cover ~ 1300deg^2. If this is confirmed, tension between supermassive
black hole evolution models and observations will be alleviated. We estimate
the space density of objects like HELP_J100156.75+022344.7 at z ~ 4.5 to be
$1.8 10^-8$Mpc$^-3$. This is slightly higher than the space
density of coeval hyperluminous optically selected quasars suggesting that the
obscuring torus in z > 4 quasars may have a covering factor $50\%$.
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