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A sample of 16 quasars selected from the Large Bright Quasar Survey in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.5 has been imaged in the R band with the Planetary Camera on the WFPC2 instrument of the Hubble Space Telescope. The host galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric J. Hooper , Chris D. Impey , Craig B. Foltz

We searched the HST archives for unpublished WFPC2 images of low redshift (z<0.5) radio loud quasars (RLQ). This led to the identification of 11 objects. We present here the results of the analysis of these images from which we derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Pagani , R. Falomo , A. Treves

We present the results of a deep K-band imaging study which reveals the host galaxies around a sample of luminous radio-quiet quasars. The K-band images, obtained at UKIRT, are of sufficient quality to allow accurate modelling of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. J. Percival , L. Miller , R. J. McLure , J. S. Dunlop

We present high spatial resolution near-infrared H-band (1.65 microns) images, taken with ISAAC on UT1 of ESO VLT, of three radio-loud quasars at z = 1.5, as a pilot study for imaging of a larger sample of radio-loud and radio-quiet quasars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Renato Falomo , Jari Kotilainen , Aldo Treves

We present K-band images of 31 radio quasars selected from the B3-VLA quasar sample. A new method has been developed to detect and restore the host galaxies of these quasars. We have detected the host galaxies of 16 of them. Using these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. F. Sanchez , J. I. Gonzalez-Serrano

We present K-band imaging and photometry of a sample of 52 radio loud quasars (RQs) selected from the B3 survey with flux densities above 0.5 Jy at 408 MHz. The optical completeness of the sample is 90% and the quasars cover the redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Carballo , S. F. Sanchez , J. I. Gonzalez-Serrano , C. R. Benn , M. Vigotti

We present first results from our study of the properties of ~400 low redshift (z < 0.5) quasars, based on a large homogeneous dataset derived from the Stripe 82 area of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7). For this sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-08 Jari Kotilainen , Renato Falomo , Daniela Bettoni , Kalle Karhunen , Michela Uslenghi

We present VLT/ISAAC near-infrared imaging of the host galaxies of 15 low luminosity quasars at 1 < z < 2. This work complements our studies to trace the cosmological evolution of the host galaxies of high luminosity quasars. The radio-loud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. K. Kotilainen , R. Falomo , A. Treves , M. Uslenghi

We present the first results from a major HST WFPC2 imaging study aimed at providing the first statistically meaningful comparison of the morphologies, luminosities, scalelengths and colours of the host galaxies of radio-quiet quasars,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. J. McLure , J. S. Dunlop , M. J. Kukula , S. A. Baum , C. P. O'Dea , D. H. Hughes

We present and analyse the deepest, high-quality Ks-band images ever obtained of luminous quasars at z~4, in an attempt to determine the basic properties of their host galaxies less than 1 Gyr after the first recorded appearance of black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Thomas A. Targett , James S. Dunlop , Ross J. McLure

We present stellar velocity dispersion measurements in the host galaxies of 10 luminous quasars (M_V < -23) using the Ca H&K lines in off-nuclear spectra. We combine these data with effective radii and magnitudes from the literature to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marsha J. Wolf , Andrew I. Sheinis

We have made a deep NICMOS imaging study of a sample of 5 z ~ 2 - 3 radio-quiet quasars with low absolute nuclear luminosities, and we have detected apparent host galaxies in all of these. Most of the hosts have luminosities approximately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Ridgway , T. M. Heckman , D. Calzetti , M. Lehnert

2 micron broad- and narrow-band imaging with the Gemini-N telescope of five z~4.7 QSOs, has resolved both the host galaxies and [O II] emission-line gas. The resolved fluxes of the host galaxies fall within the extrapolated spread of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. B. Hutchings

We present optical spectra and redshift measurements for 178 flat-spectrum objects from the Parkes quarter-Jansky flat-spectrum sample. These spectra were obtained in order to compile a complete sample of quasars for use in a study of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. M. Hook , P. A. Shaver , C. A. Jackson , J. V. Wall , K. I. Kellermann

We will present the results of a NICMOS H-band imaging survey of a small sample of z ~ 2 to 3 radio-quiet quasars. We have resolved extension in at least 4 of 5 objects and find evidence for a wide range in the morphologies and magnitudes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Ridgway , T. Heckman , D. Calzetti , M. Lehnert

We present rest-frame UV and Ly-alpha images of spatially-resolved structures around five high-redshift radio-loud quasars obtained with the WFPC2 camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. We find that all five quasars are extended and this…

We present near-infrared H-band observations of the hosts of three z~1 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey made with the adaptive optics system at Lick Observatory. We derive a PSF for each quasar and model the host plus quasar…

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 present the results of a high resolution (0.27 arcsec/px) near-infrared H band (1.65 micron) imaging survey of a complete sample of 20 flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) extracted from the 2Jy catalogue of radio sources. The observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. K. Kotilainen , R. Falomo , R. Scarpa

In this paper we report new evidence that measurements of the broad-line widths in quasars are dependent on the source orientation, consistent with the idea that the broad-line region is flattened or disc-like. This reinforces the view…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matt J. Jarvis , Ross J. McLure
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