Imaging of z~2 QSO host galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope

Details Imaging of z~2 QSO host galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of z~2 QSO host galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope

2002-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202401v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages including 2 tables; to appear in AJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/340472

We report on deep imaging in 2 filters with the PC2 camera of HST, of five QSOs at redshift ~2, with a range of optical and radio luminosity. The observations included a suite of PSF observations which were used to construct new PSF models, described elsewhere by Dumont et al. The new PSF models were used to remove the QSO nucleus from the images. We find that the host galaxies have resolved flux of order 10% of the QSO nuclei, and are generally luminous and blue, indicating active star-formation. While most have clearly irregular morphologies, the bulk of the flux can be modelled approximately by an r**1/4 law. However, all host galaxies also have an additional approximately exponential luminosity profile beyond a radius about 0.8 arcsec, as also seen in ground-based data with larger telescopes. The QSOs all have a number of nearby faint blue companions which may be young galaxies at the QSO redshift. We discuss implications for evolution of the host galaxies, their spheroidal populations, and central black holes.

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