The SCUBA-2 web survey: I. Observations of CO(3–2) in hyper-luminous QSO fields

A primary goal of the Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array-2 web survey is to perform tomography of the early intergalactic medium by studying systems containing some of the brightest quasi-stellar objects (QSOs; 2.5|\, {\lt }\, z\, {\lt }\,3.0) and nearby submillimetre galaxies (SMGs). As a first step, this paper aims to characterize the galaxies that host the QSOs. To achieve this, a sample of 13 hyper-luminous (⁠|$L_{\rm AGN}\, {\gt...