Quasars and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: At the Limit?
arXiv:astro-ph/9812023 · doi:10.1086/311848
Abstract
We have detected the host galaxies of 16 nearby, radio-quiet quasars using images obtained with the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). We confirm that these luminous quasars tend to live in luminous, early-type host galaxies, and we use the host-galaxy magnitudes to refine the luminosity/host-mass limit inferred from ground-based studies. If quasars obey the relation found for massive dark objects in nonactive galaxies, then our analysis implies that they radiate at up to of the Eddington rate. An analogous analysis for ultraluminous infrared galaxies shows them to accrete at up to similar Eddington fractions, consistent with the hypothesis that some of them are powered by embedded quasars.
9 pages, includes 2 eps figs, accepted to ApJLett
References in corpus (4)
Cited by in corpus (43)
- A Unified Model for the Evolution of Galaxies and Quasars
- AGN Black Hole Masses and Bolometric Luminosities
- Black Hole Mass and Eddington Ratio as Drivers for the Observable Properties of Radio-Loud and Radio-Quiet QSOs
- Elemental Abundances in QSOs: Star Formation and Galactic Nuclear Evolution at High Redshifts
- Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging of the IRAS 1-Jy Sample of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: II. The Analysis
- Unusual Broad Absorption Line Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- The HST Survey of BL Lacertae Objects. II. Host Galaxies
- HST Observations of 10 Two-Image Gravitational Lenses
- The HST Survey of BL Lacertae Objects. I. Surface Brightness Profiles, Magnitudes, and Radii of Host Galaxies
- A NICMOS imaging study of high-z quasar host galaxies
- Quasar host galaxy star formation activity from multicolour data
- Host dynamics and origin of Palomar-Green QSOs
- Galaxy bulges and their massive black holes: a review
- Near Infrared Adaptive Optics Imaging of QSO Host Galaxies
- NICMOS Imaging of the Host Galaxies of z ~ 2 - 3 Radio-Quiet Quasars
- A Radiation-Hydrodynamical Model for Supermassive Black Hole-to-Bulge Mass Relation and Quasar Formation
- NICMOS Imaging of a Damped Lyman-alpha Absorber at z=1.89 toward LBQS 1210+1731 : Constraints on Size and Star Formation Rate
- Proto-Quasars:Physical States and Observable Properties
- NICMOS Observations of Low-Redshift Quasar Host Galaxies
- The `Great Debate': The Case for AGNs
- Anti-correlation between the mass of a supermassive black hole and the mass accretion rate in type I ultraluminous infrared galaxies and nearby QSOs
- The host galaxies of luminous radio-quiet quasars
- Host galaxies of bright high redshift quasars: Luminosities and colours
- The Host Galaxies of Radio-Loud AGN: The Black Hole--Galaxy Connection
- Type I ULIRGs: Transition Stage from ULIRGs to QSOs
- Gemini imaging of QSO host galaxies at z~2
- Multiwavelength study of the nuclei of a volume-limited sample of galaxies I: X-ray observations
- Star formation in luminous quasar host galaxies at z=1-2
- Cosmic Ray Generation by Quasar Remnants: Constraints and Implications
- An HST/WFPC2 Snapshot Survey of 2MASS-Selected Red QSOs
- Optical off-nuclear spectra of quasar hosts and radio galaxies
- Accretion Disk Instabilities, CDM models and their role in Quasar Evolution
- Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Post-Starburst Quasar UN 1025-0040: Evidence for Recent Star Formation
- Host Galaxies of z=4 Quasars
- Star-forming QSO host galaxies
- On-axis spatially resolved spectroscopy of low redshift quasar host galaxies: HE 1503+0228 at z=0.135
- High-redshift quasar host galaxies with adaptive optics
- Host Galaxy Evolution in Radio-Loud AGN
- The relation between the mid-infrared emission and Black Hole Mass in Active Galactic Nuclei: A direct way to probe black hole growth?
- Resolving the Host Galaxy of the Nearby QSO I Zw 1 with Sub-Arcsecond Multi-Transition Molecular Line Observations
- Theoretical Models of Multi-waveband QSO Luminosity Functions
- HST NICMOS Imaging of z ~ 2 to 3 radio-quiet quasars
- Wide Field Multiband Imaging of Low Redshift Quasar Environments