K-band imaging of 52 B3-VLA quasars: Nucleus and host properties

Details K-band imaging of 52 B3-VLA quasars: Nucleus and host properties K-band imaging of 52 B3-VLA quasars: Nucleus and host properties

1997-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9712220v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

tar gzipped file including 1 LaTeX file, 4 latex tables, and 13 PostScript figures. Accepted in AJ (April 1998)

Scientific paper

10.1086/300278

We present K-band imaging and photometry of a sample of 52 radio loud quasars (RQs) selected from the B3 survey with flux densities above 0.5 Jy at 408 MHz. The optical completeness of the sample is 90% and the quasars cover the redshift range 0.4 - 2.3. For ~57% of the sources for which the quality of the images allowed a detailed morphological study (16/28) resolved extended emission was detected around the QSO, and its K flux was measured. Interpreting this ``fuzz'' as starlight emission from the host galaxy, its location on the K-z plane at z<1 is consistent with radio quasars being hosted by galaxies similar to radio galaxies (RGs) or giant ellipticals (gEs). At higher redshifts the detected host galaxies of RQs are more luminous than typical RGs and gEs, although some weak detections or upper limits are consistent with a similar fraction of RQs being hosted by galaxies with the expected luminosities for RGs or gEs. We found a significant correlation between radio power and nuclear infrared luminosity indicating a direct link between the radio synchrotron emission and the nuclear emission in K. This correlation is more tight for the steep-spectrum sources (99.97% significance). In addition, a trend is found between radio power and infrared luminosity of the host galaxy (or mass), in the sense that the most powerful quasars inhabit the most luminous galaxies.

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