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The counterrotating core and the black hole mass of IC1459

(2002)

Authors:

M Cappellari, EK Verolme, RP van der Marel, GA Verdoes Kleijn, GD Illingworth, M Franx, CM Carollo, PT de Zeeuw

Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South with the Infrared Space Observatory - I. Observations, data reduction and mid-infrared source counts

(2002)

Authors:

S Oliver, RG Mann, R Carballo, A Franceschini, M Rowan-Robinson, M Kontizas, A Dapergolas, E Kontizas, A Verma, D Elbaz, GL Granato, L Silva, D Rigopoulou, JI Gonzalez-Serrano, S Serjeant, A Efstathiou, PP van der Werf

Observations of the Hubble Deep Field South with the Infrared Space Observatory - II. Associations and star formation rates

(2002)

Authors:

RG Mann, S Oliver, R Carballo, A Franceschini, M Rowan-Robinson, AF Heavens, M Kontizas, D Elbaz, A Dapergolas, E Kontizas, GL Granato, L Silva, D Rigopoulou, JI Gonzalez-Serrano, A Verma, S Serjeant, A Efstathiou, PP van der Werf

Efficient Multi-Gaussian Expansion of galaxies

(2002)

Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 observations of hyperluminous infrared galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 329:3 (2002) 605-619

Authors:

D Farrah, Aprajita Verma, S Oliver, M Rowan-Robinson, R McMahon

Abstract:

We present Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 I-band imaging for a sample of nine hyperluminous infrared galaxies (HLIRGs) spanning a redshift range 0.45 < z < 1.34. Three of the sample have morphologies showing evidence for interactions and six are quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). Host galaxies in the QSOs are detected reliably out to z ∼ 0.8. The detected QSO host galaxies have an elliptical morphology with scalelengths spanning 6.5 < re (kpc) < 88 and absolute k-corrected magnitudes spanning −24.5 < MI < −25.2. There is no clear correlation between the infrared (IR) power source and the optical morphology. None of the sources in the sample, including F15307+3252, shows 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 active galactic nuclei. Only a small number of sources, the infrared luminosities of which exceed 1013 L⊙, are intrinsically less luminous objects that have been boosted by gravitational lensing.