Sbarrato, T.T.SbarratoTagliaferri, G.G.TagliaferriGhisellini, G.G.GhiselliniPerri, MatteoMatteoPerriPuccetti, SimonettaSimonettaPuccettiGiommi, PaoloPaoloGiommi2020-09-172020-09-172013-11-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13025/3123The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 777, Issue 2, article id. 147, <NUMPAGES>8</NUMPAGES> pp. (2013).B2 1023+25 is an extremely radio-loud quasar at z = 5.3 that was first identified as a likely high-redshift blazar candidate in the SDSS+FIRST quasar catalog. Here, we use the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) to investigate its non-thermal jet emission, whose high-energy component we detected in the hard X-ray energy band. The X-ray flux is (5-10?keV) and the photon spectral index is ?X 1.3-1.6. Modeling the full spectral energy distribution, we find that the jet is oriented close to the line of sight, with a viewing angle of 3?, and has significant Doppler boosting, with a large bulk Lorentz factor 13, which confirms the identification of B2 1023+25 as a blazar. B2 1023+25 is the first object at redshift larger than 5 detected by NuSTAR, demonstrating the ability of NuSTAR to investigate the early X-ray universe and to study extremely active supermassive black holes located at very high redshift.galaxies activequasars generalquasars individual B2 1023+25X-rays generaljournal article10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/147http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...777..147S2013ApJ...777..147S