Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-05-03
Astron.Lett.33:355-367,2007; Pisma Astron.Zh.33:403-416,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables
Scientific paper
10.1134/S1063773707060011
Based on the SDSS catalog, we have found new close quasar-galaxy pairs. Quasars projected onto the halos of nearer galaxies are encountered among the multitude of quasars observed at various distances from us. Among them there are quasars that are close to the galaxies not only in angular separation, but also in redshift. Such quasar-galaxy pairs are called close pairs. We developed further the hypothesis that such pairs appear, because the fluxer on the nucleus of the more distant galaxy passes through halo globular clusters of the nearer galaxy,resulting in magnification and splitting of the image of the source that we interpret as a quasar. To corroborate this hypothesis, we analyzed the distribution of quasars in the plane of the halos of these galaxies. The quasars from close pairs were found to follow the density profile of globular clusters in the halos of elliptical and spiral galaxies with slopes of -1.5 and -2.4 for elliptical and spiral galaxies, respectively. This suggests that quasars do not appear near galaxies by chance and that quasars are associated with galaxies via halo globular clusters.
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