Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-11-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted to be published in MNRAS. 11 pages, Latex, uses mn macros, also available at http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~itziar
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01398.x
We present multicolour images of the hosts of three z=2 QSOs previously detected in R-band by our group. The luminosities, colours and sizes of the hosts overlap with those of actively star-forming galaxies in the nearby Universe. Radial profiles over the outer resolved areas roughly follow de Vaucouleur or exponential disk laws. These properties give support to the host galaxy interpretation of the extended light around QSOs at high-redshift. The rest-frame UV colours and upper limits derived for the rest-frame UV-optical colours are inconsistent with the hypothesis of a scattered halo of light from the active nucleus by a simple optically-thin scattering process produced by dust or hot electrons. If the UV light is indeed stellar, star formation rates of hundreds of solar masses per year are implied, an order of magnitude larger than field galaxies at similar redshifts and above. This might indicate that the QSO phenomenon (at least the high-luminosity one) is preferentially acompanied by enhanced galactic activity at high-redshifts.
Aretxaga Itziar
Boyle Brian J.
Terlevich Roberto Juan
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