Molecular Gas in Infrared-Excess, Optically-Selected QSOs and the Connection with Infrared Luminous Galaxies

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2001-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101308v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LaTex, 16 pages, including 7 postscript figures, AJ, in press (April, 2001)

Scientific paper

10.1086/319972

The initial results of a millimeter (CO) survey of infrared-excess, optically-selected quasars from the Palomar-Green (PG) Bright Quasar Survey (BQS) with redshifts in the range 0.04 < z < 0.17 are presented. These observations represent the first step towards establishing with a complete sample whether or not quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) reside in molecular gas-rich galaxies, as well as towards determining how the infrared and molecular gas properties of QSOs compare with those of ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIGs), which are a possible evolutionary precursor of QSOs. The sample consists of QSOs having absolute blue magnitudes, M_B <~ -22.0, and infrared excesses, L_IR (8-1000 um) /L_bbb (0.1-1.0 um) >0.36, where the contribution to the bolometric luminosity of infrared thermal dust emission for all PG QSOs is typically 20--40%. Six out of 10 of the QSOs observed are detected in the CO(1-0) emission line; two detections confirm previous, less sensitive detections of CO(1-0) in PG 1613+658 and PG 0838+770, and four additional QSOs are detected for the first time (PG 1119+120, PG 1351+640, PG 1415+451, and PG 1440+356). These six detections, plus two previous detections of CO in IZw1 and Mrk 1014, bring the total number of 0.04 < z < 0.17 infrared-excess PG QSOs detected in CO to date to eight, and provide possible evidence that, in addition to fueling star formation, molecular gas may also serve as a primary source of fuel for QSO activity...

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