Optical Imaging of QSOs With 0.5 Arcsec Resolution
Abstract
We present optical imaging data on 28 low redshift QSOs with 0.5 arcsec resolution. The group includes a range of radio and IR luminosities. The high-resolution data reveal significant new morphological information on 16 objects, and yield good luminosity profiles on all of them. Most objects appear to have R^1/4^ law or peculiar luminosity profiles. The QSOs are almost all found to be in merging or interacting galaxies, most of them with a smaller companion. The observed structural details appear to be similar to lower luminosity AGN at low redshift. There are a few unexplained features such as "Jets" near the nucleus. Detailed descriptions are given of all objects. We also describe new high- resolution radio observations of a few of the QSOs.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 1992
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1992AJ....104....1H
- Keywords:
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- Active Galactic Nuclei;
- Interacting Galaxies;
- Luminous Intensity;
- Quasars;
- Radio Galaxies;
- Red Shift;
- Galactic Structure;
- Gray Scale;
- Infrared Astronomy Satellite;
- Radio Astronomy;
- Astrophysics;
- INFRARED: GALAXIES;
- QUASARS: EMISSION LINES;
- METHODS: OBSERVATIONAL