The environments of hyperluminous infrared galaxies at 0.44<z<1.55

Details The environments of hyperluminous infrared galaxies at 0.44<z<1.55 The environments of hyperluminous infrared galaxies at 0.44<z<1.55

2003-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312215v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 349 (2004) 518

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 5 figures. MNRAS accepted. Higher quality versions of figure 1 available on request

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07515.x

We present deep wide-field K-band observations of six Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies (HLIRGs) spanning a redshift range 0.440.5 is greater than locally, and includes mergers between gas-rich spiral galaxies in the field, but also includes encounters in clusters and hierarchical buildup. The similarity in the range of environments and mean clustering amplitude between our sample and QSOs over a similar redshift range is consistent with the interpretation where evolutionary connections between IR-luminous galaxies and QSOs are stronger at z>0.5 than locally, and that, at these redshifts, the processes that drive QSO evolution are similar to those that drive IR-luminous galaxy evolution. From comparison of the HLIRG and QSO host galaxies we further postulate that a larger fraction of IR-luminous galaxies pass through an optical QSO stage at z>0.5 than locally.

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