Qso Hosts and Their Environments

by Marquez, Isabel; Masegosa, Josefa; Del Olmo, Ascension; Lara, Lucas; Garcia, Emilio

• ISBN13: 9780306466625
• ISBN10: 0306466627
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

Advanced technologies in astronomy at various wavelengths have provided us with high resolution and high quality data on the QSO population. This meeting was aimed at understanding the morphology and nature of the host galaxies and environments of QSOs. The invited lectures as well as the contributed and poster papers highlighted the main issues of current research: the stellar and gaseous content of the underlying galaxy; the characterization of the population of companions and the nature of their interaction with the host galaxy; the connection between radio-loud QSO and radio-galaxies, and QSOs and ULIRGs; the evolution with redshift of both the host galaxy and its environment, and the main implications in theories of galaxy formation and evolution. This volume provides a valuable overview and timely update of the exciting and rapidly developing field of QSO hosts and their environments - essential reading for graduate students and researchers.

Table of Contents

Radio quiet / loud dichotomy. Unification
The hosts galaxies of radio-loud and radio-quiet quasars	p. 3
The Nucleus-Host Galaxy Connection in Radio-Loud AGN	p. 13
The host galaxies of luminous radio-quiet quasars	p. 21
The radio loudness dichotomy: environment or black-hole mass?	p. 27
QSO environments at intermediate redshifts	p. 33
Host galaxies and cluster environment of BL Lac objects at z ] 0.5	p. 39
Associated absorption and radio source growth	p. 45
Host galaxies of RGB BL Lacertae objects	p. 51
On The Parent Population of Radio Galaxies and the FR I-II Dichotomy	p. 55
The real difference between radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs	p. 59
Broadband optical colours of intermediate redshift QSO host galaxies	p. 61
Three peculiar objects from a new sample of radio galaxies	p. 65
QSO redshift evolution and their cluster environments
QSO hosts and companions at higher redshift	p. 71
The luminosity function of QSO host galaxies	p. 83
QSO host galaxy star formation history from multicolour data	p. 89
Near-infrared imaging of steep spectrum radio quasars	p. 95
Adaptive-optics imaging of low and intermediate redshift quasars	p. 101
Subaru Observations of the Host Galaxies and the Environments of the Radio Galaxy 3C324 at z = 1.1	p. 107
Extremely red radio galaxies	p. 113
The environments of radio-loud quasars	p. 119
Extended X-ray emission around radio-loud quasars	p. 127
WFPC2 Imaging of Quasar Environments	p. 133
Deceleration and asymmetry in QSO radio map	p. 137
Spatially resolved spectroscopy of emission-line gas in QSO Host galaxies	p. 141
Host Galaxies and the Spectral Variability of Quasars	p. 145
Tidal Interactions/Mergers. ULIRGS
The AGN-Starburst Connection in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies	p. 151
The QSO - Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies Connection	p. 165
Recent star formation in very luminous infrared galaxies	p. 171
A Molecular Gas Survey of z [ 0.2 Infrared Excess, Optical QSOs	p. 177
Molecular gas in nearby powerful radio galaxies	p. 185
HI Imaging of low-z QSO Host Galaxies	p. 191
Dust in Quasars and Radiogalaxies as seen by ISO	p. 199
Imaging of a Complete Sample of IR-Excess PG QSOs	p. 205
Interaction patterns in a complete sample of compact groups	p. 209
Galaxies hosting lower level AGN activity
AGN Host galaxies: HST at z 0.1 and Gemini at z 2	p. 215
Host galaxies and nuclear structure of AGN with H[subscript 2]O megamasers as seen with HST	p. 223
Statistics of Seyfert galaxies in clusters	p. 229
More bars in Seyfert than in non-Seyfert galaxies	p. 235
Stellar Populations in the Host galaxy of AGNs	p. 241
The Stellar Population of powerful Seyfert 2 galaxies: Implications for QSOs	p. 247
Anisotropy in the mid-IR emission of Seyfert galaxies	p. 255
FIR and Radio emission in star forming galaxies	p. 261
No double nucleus at the center of Arp 220 ?	p. 265
Starburst Activity in Seyfert 2 Galaxies: UV-X-ray emission in NGC1068	p. 269
Host Galaxies and Environment of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Nuclei	p. 273
The Circum-Galactic Environment of LINERs and Bright IRAS Galaxies	p. 277
HI Imaging of Seyfert Galaxies	p. 281
Starburst-AGN Connection; Regulated by Radiatively-Supported Obscuring Walls	p. 285
Rotation curve and mean stellar population of the 1 Zw 1 QSO host	p. 289
QSO at high z as tracers of structures. Galaxy Formation
Semi-analytic galaxy formation: understanding the high redshift universe	p. 295
Radiation-Hydrodynamical Model for the QSO Formation	p. 307
Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Host Galaxies	p. 313
Host Galaxies of Low Luminosity Quasars at Intermediate Redshift	p. 321
A NICMOS imaging study of quasar host galaxy evolution	p. 327
The radio galaxy K - z relation to z 4.5	p. 333
What fuels AGNs?	p. 339
VLT-ISAAC imaging of three radio loud quasars at z 1.5	p. 343
Two-dimensional modeling of AGN host galaxies	p. 347
Superclustering of Galaxies Traced by a Group of QSOs at Z = 1.1	p. 351
Future prospects with new instrumentation
Uncovering AGN with X-ray observations	p. 357
New Ground Based facilities in QSD research	p. 367
Author Index	p. 375
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