sample of 513 optically luminous type 1 quasars up to redshifts of∼ 4 hosting extremely
high star formation rates (SFRs). The quasars are selected to be individually detected by the
Herschel SPIRE instrument at> 3σ at 250 μm, leading to typical SFRs of order of 1000 M⊙
yr− 1. We find the average SFRs to increase by almost a factor 10 from z∼ 0.5 to z∼ 3,
mirroring the rise in the comoving SFR density over the same epoch. However, we find that …