The relationship of an AGN to its host galaxy is a crucial question in the study of galaxy evolution. We perform stellar population synthesis in the central regions of galaxies of different activity levels. A large number of stellar features are measured both in the optical and near-infrared. We find the nuclear stellar population to be related to the level of activity. These differences are no more conspicuous further away in the bulge of the galaxy.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0111331,
title = {Host galaxies of AGN},
author = {C. Boisson and M. Joly},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0111331},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures, To be published in `Issues in the Unification of AGN' (Elba May 2001) eds. R. Maiolino, A. Marconi and N. Nagar (ASP Conf. Series)