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arxiv: astro-ph/0103112 · v1 · submitted 2001-03-07 · 🌌 astro-ph

The luminosity function of QSO host galaxies

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keywords galaxiesfunctionluminositypopulationalthoughbandcompleteearly-type
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We report on results from H band imaging observations of a complete sample of high-luminosity low-redshift QSOs. The luminosity function of QSO hosts is similar in shape to that of normal galaxies, although offset in normalisation by a factor of 10^(-4). This supports the hypothesis that the parent population of quasars is identical to the general population of early-type field galaxies.

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