Extremely red galaxy counterparts to 7C radio sources

Details Extremely red galaxy counterparts to 7C radio sources Extremely red galaxy counterparts to 7C radio sources

2000-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0011082v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 324 (2001) 1-17

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

20 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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We present RIJHK imaging of seven radio galaxies from the 7C Redshift Survey (7CRS) which lack strong emission lines and we use these data to investigate their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with models which constrain their redshifts. Six of these seven galaxies have extremely red colours (R-K>5.5) and we find that almost all of them lie in the redshift range 1L*) galaxies which formed the bulk of their stars several Gyr earlier, that is at epochs corresponding to redshifts z>5. If a similar fraction of all z~1.5 radio galaxies are old, then extrapolation of the radio luminosity function shows that, depending on the radio source lifetimes, between 10-100% of the near-IR selected extremely red object (ERO) population undergo a radio outburst at epochs corresponding to 15 and these objects probably undergo at least two periods of AGN activity: one at high redshift during which the black hole forms and another one at an epoch corresponding to z~1.5.

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