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ALMA [CII] line and continuum observations of five redshift z>6 quasars are presented. This sample was selected to probe lower black hole mass quasars than most previous studies. We find a wide dispersion in properties with CFHQS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Chris J. Willott , Jacqueline Bergeron , Alain Omont

In the local universe, the masses of Super-Massive Black-Holes (SMBH) appear to correlate with physical properties of their hosts, including the mass of the dark-matter halos. At higher redshifts, we observe the growth of SMBHs indirectly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart Wyithe , T. Padmanabhan

High-$z$ AGNs hosted in gas rich galaxies are expected to grow through significantly obscured accretion phases. This may limit or bias their observability. In this work, we use \textsc{BlueTides}, a large volume cosmological simulation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 Yueying Ni , Tiziana Di Matteo , Roberto Gilli , Rupert A. C. Croft , Yu Feng , Colin Norman

Observations of high-redshift quasars provide information on the massive black holes (MBHs) powering them and the galaxies hosting them. Current observations of $z \gtrsim 6$ hosts, at sub-mm wavelengths, trace the properties of cold gas,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-17 Alessandro Lupi , Marta Volonteri , Roberto Decarli , Stefano Bovino , Joseph Silk , Jacqueline Bergeron

A new model for quasar-hosting dark matter halos, meeting two physical conditions, is put forth. First, significant interactions are taken into consideration to trigger quasar activities. Second, satellites in very massive halos at low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Renyue Cen , Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh

We present optical through radio observations of the host galaxies of two dust obscured, luminous quasars selected in the mid-infrared, at z=2.62 and z=2.99, including a search for CO emission. Our limits on the CO luminosities are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mark Lacy , Andreea O. Petric , Alejo Martinez-Sansigre , Susan E. Ridgway , Anna Sajina , Tanya Urrutia , Duncan Farrah

Black-hole masses of the highest redshift quasars (4 <~ z <~ 6) are estimated using a previously presented scaling relationship, derived from reverberation mapping of nearby quasars, and compared to quasars at lower redshift. It is shown…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Vestergaard

We present rest-frame $B$ and $I$ imaging of 35 low-redshift ($z < 0.5$) Palomar-Green quasars using the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3. We perform multi-component two-dimensional image decomposition to separate the host galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 Yulin Zhao , Luis C. Ho , Jinyi Shangguan , Minjin Kim , Dongyao Zhao , Hua Gao

Galaxies hosting z~2 quasars are the high-$z$ progenitors of today's massive `red-and-dead' galaxies. With close pairs of quasars at different redshifts, a background quasar can be used to study a foreground quasar's halo gas in absorption,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Xavier Prochaska , Joseph F. Hennawi

We present the results of a near-infrared imaging study of high redshift (z~3) quasars using the ESO-VLT. Our targets were selected to have luminosities among the highest known (absolute magnitude M_B <~ -28. We searched for resolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Schramm , L. Wisotzki , K. Jahnke

We present a photometrical and morphological multicolor study of the properties of low redshift (z<0.3) quasar hosts based on a large and homogeneous dataset of quasars derived from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (DR7). We used quasars that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-04 D. Bettoni , R. Falomo , J. K. Kotilainen , K. Karhunen , M. Uslenghi

Quasars are useful tracers of the cosmological evolution of the black hole mass - galaxy relation. We compare the expectations of Semi-Analytical Models (SAM) of galaxy evolution, to the largest available datasets of quasar host galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Portinari , J. Kotilainen , R. Falomo , R. Decarli

We present near-infrared imaging with ESO VLT+ISAAC of the host galaxies of low luminosity quasars in the redshift range 1 < z < 2, aimed at investigating the relationship between the nuclear and host galaxy luminosities at high redshift.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. K. Kotilainen , R. Falomo , M. Labita , A. Treves , M. Uslenghi

We have obtained Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer images of 16 radio quiet quasars observed as part of a project to investigate the ``luminosity/host-mass limit.'' The limit results were presented in McLeod, Rieke, &…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. K. McLeod , B. A. McLeod

We examine the properties of the host galaxies of $z=7$ quasars using the large volume, cosmological hydrodynamical simulation BlueTides. We find that the 10 most massive black holes and the 191 quasars in the simulation (with…

We present ALMA band 3 observations of the CO(6-5), CO(7-6), and [CI] 369micron emission lines in three of the highest redshift quasar host galaxies at 6.6<z<6.9. These measurements constitute the highest-redshift CO detections to date. The…

We measure host galaxy stellar masses for a sample of five luminous quasars at $z\sim5-7$. Using JWST/NIRCam medium-band images of nearby PSF reference stars, we carefully subtract the contribution from the quasar light to place upper and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-07 Meredith A. Stone , Jianwei Lyu , George H. Rieke , Stacey Alberts , Kevin N. Hainline

We resolve the host galaxies of seven gravitationally lensed quasars at redshift 1.5 to 2.8 using observations with the Atacama Large (sub-)Millimetre Array. Using a visibility-plane lens modelling technique, we create pixellated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 H. R. Stacey , J. P. McKean , D. M. Powell , S. Vegetti , F. Rizzo , C. Spingola , M. W. Auger , R. J. Ivison , P. P. van der Werf

We present results of a deep HST/WFPC2 imaging study of 17 quasars at z~0.4, designed to determine the properties of their host galaxies. The sample consists of quasars with absolute magnitudes in the range -24>M_V>-28, allowing us to…

We present Hubble Space Telescope 1.4-1.6 micron images of the hosts of ten extremely red quasars (ERQs) and six type 2 quasar candidates at z=2-3. ERQs, whose bolometric luminosities range between 10^47 and 10^48 erg/sec, show…