The optical cut-off source 0500+019: A background quasar seen through a foreground galaxy?

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Feb 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996a%26a...306...49s&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.306, p.49

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: 0500+019, Quasars: 0500+019, Gravitational Lensing, Radio Continuum: Galaxies

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The optical spectrum of the extremely red (α_R-B_=~-7) optical counterpart of the radio source 0500+019 shows an unidentified emission line at 6543 A in addition to absorption and emission lines of Ca H&K λλ 3933,3968, [OII]λ3727, and [OIII]λλ 4959,5007 at a redshift of z=0.583. The optical (R-band) morphology of 0500+019 consists of an asymmetric galaxy with no obvious point source. In contrast, the infrared (K_s_) morphology is dominated by a point source, while the galaxy component seen in the R-band is clearly visible only after image restoration. Since the emission line at 6543 A cannot be identified within the z=0.583 redshift system, it is interpreted as being due to a second system of currently unknown redshift. The optical and infrared morphologies then naturally lead to a picture, where a background source, likely a quasar seen in the infrared, is located behind a foreground galaxy, which is most clearly detected in the optical. In this case the steep optical spectral index may be the result of foreground absorption rather than being a source intrinsinc property.

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