Submillimetre observations of luminous z>4 radio-quiet quasars and the contribution of AGN to the submm source population

Details Submillimetre observations of luminous z>4 radio-quiet quasars and the contribution of AGN to the submm source population Submillimetre observations of luminous z>4 radio-quiet quasars and the contribution of AGN to the submm source population

1999-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9907239v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in MNRAS, 5 pages, Latex with MNRAS macros

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02909.x

We present sensitive 850 micron SCUBA photometry of a statistically-complete sample of six of the most luminous, z>4 radio-quiet quasars, reaching noise levels comparable with the deep blank sky surveys. One quasar (BR2237-0607; z=4.55) is detected at 850micron with a flux of 5.0mJy (4.5sigma), whilst a second (BR0019-1522; z=4.52) has a detection at the 2 sigma level. When combined with our previous millimetre measurements of z>4 quasars, we find that there is a large range (5--10) in far infrared (FIR) luminosity at fixed UV luminosity, and that the typical quasar has a L_FIR and mass of cool (50K) dust similar to that of the archetyepal low redshift (z=0.018) ultraluminous IRAS} galaxy Arp220. If one assumes a fiducial FIR luminosity of 5x10^12 Lsun for for all quasars with M_B<-23, we find that around 15 per cent of the sources in the SCUBA deep surveys could be classical broad-lined radio-quiet AGN. Thus if one considers the observed ratio of Seyfert II to Seyfert I galaxies at low redshift and any contribution from totally optically obscured AGN, a significant fraction of the SCUBA source population will harbour AGN and hence the inferred star formation rates from submm fluxes may be overestimated if the active nuclei are bolometrically dominant or the IMF is top heavy.

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