Host Galaxy Contribution to the Colours of `Red' Quasars

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1998-08-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808337v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for Publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.02088.x

We describe an algorithm that measures self-consistently the relative galaxy contribution in a sample of radio-quasars from their optical spectra alone. This is based on a spectral fitting method which uses the size of the characteristic 4000\AA~ feature of elliptical galaxy SEDs. We apply this method to the Parkes Half-Jansky Flat Spectrum sample of Drinkwater et al. (1997) to determine whether emission from the host galaxy can significantly contribute to the very red optical-to-near-infrared colours observed. We find that at around $2\sigma$ confidence, most of the reddening in unresolved (mostly quasar-like) sources is unlikely to be due to contamination by a red stellar component.

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