HST imaging of hyperluminous infrared galaxies
We present HST WFPC2 I band imaging for a sample of 9 Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies spanning a redshift range 0.45 < z < 1.34. Three of the sample have morphologies showing evidence for interactions, six are QSOs. Host galaxies in the QSOs are reliably detected out to z ~ 0.8. The de...
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| author | Farrah, D Verma, A Oliver, S Rowan-Robinson, M McMahon, R |
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| description | We present HST WFPC2 I band imaging for a sample of 9 Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies spanning a redshift range 0.45 < z < 1.34. Three of the sample have morphologies showing evidence for interactions, six are QSOs. Host galaxies in the QSOs are reliably detected out to z ~ 0.8. The detected QSO host galaxies have an elliptical morphology with scalelengths spanning 6.5 < r_{e}(Kpc) < 88 and absolute k corrected magnitudes spanning -24.5 < M_{I} < -25.2. There is no clear correlation between the IR power source and the optical morphology. None of the sources in the sample, including F15307+3252, show any evidence for gravitational lensing. We infer that the IR luminosities are thus real. Based on these results, and previous studies of HLIRGs, we conclude that this class of object is broadly consistent with being a simple extrapolation of the ULIRG population to higher luminosities; ULIRGs being mainly violently interacting systems powered by starbursts and/or AGN. Only a small number of sources whose infrared luminosities exceed 10^{13}Lsun are intrinsically less luminous objects which have been boosted by gravitational lensing. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:68036245-44f8-4cb0-a106-6d7dc3128e3d2022-03-26T18:42:06ZHST imaging of hyperluminous infrared galaxiesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:68036245-44f8-4cb0-a106-6d7dc3128e3dSymplectic Elements at Oxford2019Farrah, DVerma, AOliver, SRowan-Robinson, MMcMahon, RWe present HST WFPC2 I band imaging for a sample of 9 Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies spanning a redshift range 0.45 < z < 1.34. Three of the sample have morphologies showing evidence for interactions, six are QSOs. Host galaxies in the QSOs are reliably detected out to z ~ 0.8. The detected QSO host galaxies have an elliptical morphology with scalelengths spanning 6.5 < r_{e}(Kpc) < 88 and absolute k corrected magnitudes spanning -24.5 < M_{I} < -25.2. There is no clear correlation between the IR power source and the optical morphology. None of the sources in the sample, including F15307+3252, show any evidence for gravitational lensing. We infer that the IR luminosities are thus real. Based on these results, and previous studies of HLIRGs, we conclude that this class of object is broadly consistent with being a simple extrapolation of the ULIRG population to higher luminosities; ULIRGs being mainly violently interacting systems powered by starbursts and/or AGN. Only a small number of sources whose infrared luminosities exceed 10^{13}Lsun are intrinsically less luminous objects which have been boosted by gravitational lensing. |
| spellingShingle | Farrah, D Verma, A Oliver, S Rowan-Robinson, M McMahon, R HST imaging of hyperluminous infrared galaxies |
| title | HST imaging of hyperluminous infrared galaxies |
| title_full | HST imaging of hyperluminous infrared galaxies |
| title_fullStr | HST imaging of hyperluminous infrared galaxies |
| title_full_unstemmed | HST imaging of hyperluminous infrared galaxies |
| title_short | HST imaging of hyperluminous infrared galaxies |
| title_sort | hst imaging of hyperluminous infrared galaxies |
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