Near-Infrared Adaptive Optics Imaging of High-Redshift Quasars

Bibcode
2008ApJ...673..694F
DOI
10.1086/524839
Falomo, Renato; Treves, Aldo; Kotilainen, Jari K.; Scarpa, R.; Uslenghi, Michela
Bibliographical reference

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 673, Issue 2, pp. 694-702.

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2008
Journal
The Astrophysical Journal
Number of authors
5
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
27
Refereed citations
24
Description
The properties of high-redshift quasar host galaxies are studied in order to investigate the connection between galaxy evolution, nuclear activity, and the formation of supermassive black holes. We combine new near-IR observations of three high-redshift quasars (21.5. Radio-quiet quasar hosts also follow a similar trend but at a lower average luminosity (~0.5 mag dimmer). The data indicate that quasar host galaxies are already fully formed at epochs as early as ~2 Gyr after the big bang and then passively fade in luminosity to the present epoch.
Type
Refereed
Galaxies
Quasars

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