A Spectacular Post-Starburst Quasar

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Dec 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aas...193.2006b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 193rd AAS Meeting, #20.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 30, p.1280

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We report the discovery of a spectacular ``post-starbust quasar'' UN J1025-00400 (B=19 and z=0.634). The optical spectrum is a chimera, dominated by a quasar in the blue, but in the red shows a large Balmer jump and deep Balmer absorption lines indicative of a young stellar population. Keck spectropolarimetry shows no intrinsic optical polarization. A Keck K-band image (0.5arcsec FWHM) fails to resolve the quasar from the starburst, but does reveal surrounding asymmetric fuzz and a nearby companion, suggestive of a galactic interaction. Stellar synthesis population models can reproduce the starlight component with a 400-Myr-old instantaneous burst of 2*E(10) M_&sun;. While starbursts and interactions have been previously associated with quasars, no quasar ever before has been seen with such a luminous young stellar population. The extreme nature of this object provides a unique test case to investigate the connection between galaxy interactions, starbursts, and AGN activity.

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