Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-hvd4g Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-11T01:50:49.775Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

FeLoBAL quasars: evolution, orientation or just oddBALs?

Part of: IAU Issue 315 - From Interstellar Clouds...

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2016

Daniel Lawther ,
Marianne Vestergaard  and
Xiaohui Fan
Daniel Lawther
Affiliation:
Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institutet, Denmark email: [email protected]
Marianne Vestergaard
Affiliation:
Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institutet, Denmark email: [email protected] Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, USA
Xiaohui Fan
Affiliation:
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, USA
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

FeLoBAL quasars may be an early evolutionary stage of merger-triggered quasar activity. We test this hypothesis using HST imaging of four FeLoBAL quasars. The host galaxy colors are consistent with early-type quiescent galaxies or heavily-obscured starbursts.

Keywords

galaxies: activequasars: generalquasars: absorption lines
Type
Poster Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , Symposium S315: From Interstellar Clouds to Star-Forming Galaxies: Universal Processes? , August 2015 , E47
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

References

Barden, M., Jahnke, K. and Häussler, B. 2008, ApJS, 175, 105B CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Elvis, M. 2012, ASPC, v.460, p.186E Google Scholar
Hall, P.B. et al., 2002, ApJS, 141, 267H Google Scholar
Peng, et al. 2010, AJ, 139, 2097 Google Scholar
Urry, C.M. and Padovani, P. 1995, PASP, v.107, p.803 Google Scholar
Voit, G. M., Weymann, R. J. and Korista, K. T. 1993, ApJ, 413, 95V Google Scholar