A Deep Hubble Space Telescope H-Band Imaging Survey of Massive Gas-Rich Mergers

Details A Deep Hubble Space Telescope H-Band Imaging Survey of Massive Gas-Rich Mergers A Deep Hubble Space Telescope H-Band Imaging Survey of Massive Gas-Rich Mergers

Dec 2005

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American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #116.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1354

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As a part of QUEST (Quasar / ULIRG Evolutionary Study) program, we present the results of a deep HST NICMOS H-band imaging survey of 33 luminous, late-type galactic mergers. We find evidences of recent galactic interaction in all of the objects including all 7 IR-excess Palomar-Green (PG) QSOs in the sample. The surface brightness profiles in these objects indicate that the great majority (81%) of the single-nucleus systems show a prominent early-type morphology. Low-surface-brightness exponential disks are detected in at least 4 of these sources. The hosts of 'warm', AGN-like systems are of early type and have less pronounced merger-induced morphological anomalies than the hosts of cool systems with LINER or HII region-like nuclear optical spectral types. The host sizes and luminosities of the 7 PG QSOs in our sample are statistically indistinguishable from those of the ULIRG hosts. The hosts of ULIRGs and PG QSOs lie close to the locations of intermediate-size ( ˜ 1 -- 2 L*) spheroids in the photometric projection of the fundamental plane of ellipticals. Our results provide support for a possible merger-driven evolutionary connection between cool ULIRGs, warm ULIRGs, and PG QSOs.

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