Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21543313h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #433.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.372
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The dichotomy between radio-loud and radio-quiet QSOs is not simply one of host morphology. While radio-louds are almost always found in elliptical hosts, radio-quiets are known to reside in both elliptical and spiral galaxies. We find that what determines whether a given elliptical galaxy will host either a radio-loud or radio-quiet QSO is a combination of accretion rate and host scale. QSOs with high x-ray luminosities (above 10e44.9 erg/s at 0.5 keV) are nearly all found to be radio-loud. But those with low luminosities divide fairly neatly along the Kormendy law, the correlation between re and μe. Those larger than about 10 kpc are radio-loud, while smaller ones are radio-quiet. It has recently been found that core and coreless ellipticals are also divided at about this limit. This implies that for low-luminosity QSOs, radio-louds are found in core ellipticals, while radio-quiets are in coreless ellipticals and spirals. This segregation shows up particularly strongly for low-redshift objects. Since the presence or absence of a core may be tied to the galactic merger history, we have an evolutionary explanation for the differences between radio-loud and radio-quiet QSOs.
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