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Quasar activity in the neighbor Universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2013

R. Falomo
Affiliation:
INAF – Osservatorio di Padova, Italy
D. Bettoni
Affiliation:
INAF – Osservatorio di Padova, Italy
K. Karhunen
Affiliation:
Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku, Finland
J. Kotilainen
Affiliation:
Finnish Center for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA), University of Turku, Finland
M. Uslenghi
Affiliation:
INAF – IASF, Milano
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Abstract

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We investigate the properties of the galaxies hosting quasars in ~400 low redshift (z < 0.5) SDSS QSO that are in the “Stripe 82” sky area. For this region deep (r ~ 22.4 mag) u, b, v, r and i images are available and allow us to study both the host galaxies and the Mpc scale environments. This sample outnumbers previous studies of low-z QSOs. We present preliminary results of the properties of quasars activity and in particular we focus on the relationships among host galaxy luminosity, black hole mass, radio emission and the surrounding galaxy environments. We select from the SDSS - QSO Catalogue all the QSOs in the range of redshift 0.1<z<0.5 and in the Stripe82 region. This gives a total of 416 QSO. In this sample we are dominated by radio quiet quasars (about 5% are radio loud). In Fig. 1 we report the distribution of QSO in the plane redshift-MR (H0 = 70). The mean redshift of the sample is <z> = 0.39 and the average absolute magnitude is: <Mi> = −22.68. We implemented an automated procedure using AIDA (Uslenghi & Falomo 2011) to decompose the QSO images into nucleus and host galaxy luminosity. After masking of all contaminating sources in the field a 2D fitting is performed using PSF + galaxy model. In Fig. 1 we show an example of a QSO image in the sample and the distribution of the host galaxy absolute magnitude of the resolved objects.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013 

References

Uslenghi, M. & Falomo, R. 2011, Proc. SPIE 8135, 813524Google Scholar