Powerful Activity in the Bright Ages. I. A Visible/IR Survey of High Redshift 3C Radio Galaxies and Quasars
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Hilbert, B.
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Chiaberge, Marco
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Kotyla, J. P.
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Tremblay, G. R.
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Sparks, W. B.
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Baum, S.
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Macchetto, F. D.
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Miley, G. K.
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O'Dea, C. P.
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Perlman, E. S.
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Quillen, A.
Abstract
We present new rest-frame UV and visible observations of 22 high-z (1 < z < 2.5) 3C radio galaxies and QSOs obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. Using a custom data reduction strategy in order to assure the removal of cosmic rays, persistence signal, and other data artifacts, we have produced high-quality science-ready images of the targets and their local environments. We observe targets with regions of UV emission suggestive of active star formation. In addition, several targets exhibit highly distorted host galaxy morphologies in the rest frame visible images. Photometric analyses reveal that brighter QSOs generally tend to be redder than their dimmer counterparts. Using emission line fluxes from the literature, we estimate that emission line contamination is relatively small in the rest frame UV images for the QSOs. Using archival VLA data, we have also created radio map overlays for each of our targets, allowing for analysis of the optical and radio axes alignment.
Volume
225
Issue
1
Issn Identifier
0067-0049
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2016ApJS..225...12H
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open.access
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