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Discovery of a bright quasar without a massive host galaxy
Pierre Magain, Geraldine Letawe, Frederic Courbin +4
Quasars are thought to be powered by the infall of matter onto a supermassive black hole at the centre of massive galaxies. As the optical luminosity of quasars exceeds that of the…
Mass Determinations of Star Clusters
Georges Meylan
Mass determinations are difficult to obtain and still frequently characterised by deceptively large uncertainties. We review below the various mass estimators used for star cluster…
Exploring the gravitationally lensed system HE 1104-1805: Near-IR Spectroscopy
F. Courbin, C. Lidman, G. Meylan +2
(Abridged) A new technique for the spatial deconvolution of spectra is applied to near-IR (0.95 - 2.50 micron) NTT/SOFI spectra of the lensed, radio-quiet quasar HE 1104-1805. The…
High resolution optical and near-IR imaging of the quadruple quasar RX J0911.4+0551
I. Burud, F. Courbin, C. Lidman +10
We report the detection of four images in the recently discovered lensed QSO RX J0911.4+0551. With a maximum angular separation of 3.1", it is the quadruply imaged QSO with the wid…
Sub-arcsecond imaging and spectroscopy of the radio-loud highly polarized quasar PKS 1610-771
F. Courbin, D. Hutsemekers, G. Meylan +2
We report on imaging and spectroscopic observations of the radio-loud, highly polarized quasar PKS 1610-771 (z = 1.71). Our long-slit spectroscopy of the companion 4.55 arcseconds…