Do sub-mm sources and quasars form an evolutionary sequence?

Details Do sub-mm sources and quasars form an evolutionary sequence? Do sub-mm sources and quasars form an evolutionary sequence?

2002-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211353v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures. Astron. Nachrichten, in press. Proceedings of the "X-ray Surveys in the light of new observatories" worksh

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The high redshift sub-mm sources discovered by SCUBA are widely believed to represent the dust-enshrouded formation of massive elliptical galaxies. Given the strong evidence for a link between the formation of the spheroid and the growth of the central black hole, one might expect to see a luminous quasar at the nucleus of every SCUBA source. Somewhat surprisingly, however, only a very small fraction (~5%) are detected by Chandra with quasar luminosities. In this paper I discuss some of the implications of these results and discuss the accumulating evidence that sub-mm sources and quasars may represent different stages in the evolutionary sequence of a massive proto-spheroid.

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