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Title: | MAD Adaptive Optics Imaging of High-luminosity Quasars: A Pilot Project | Authors: | LIUZZO, Elisabetta Teodorina Falomo, R. Paiano, S. Treves, A. USLENGHI, MICHELA ARCIDIACONO, CARMELO BARUFFOLO, Andrea DIOLAITI, EMILIANO FARINATO, JACOPO LOMBINI, MATTEO MORETTI, ALESSIA RAGAZZONI, Roberto Brast, R. Donaldson, R. Kolb, J. Marchetti, E. Tordo, S. |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Journal: | THE ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL | Number: | 152 | Issue: | 2 | First Page: | 38 | Abstract: | We present near-IR images of five luminous quasars at z ∼ 2 and one at z ∼ 4 obtained with an experimental adaptive optics (AO) instrument at the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope. The observations are part of a program aimed at demonstrating the capabilities of multi-conjugated adaptive optics imaging combined with the use of natural guide stars for high spatial resolution studies on large telescopes. The observations were mostly obtained under poor seeing conditions but in two cases. In spite of these nonoptimal conditions, the resulting images of point sources have cores of FWHM ∼ 0.2 arcsec. We are able to characterize the host galaxy properties for two sources and set stringent upper limits to the galaxy luminosity for the others. We also report on the expected capabilities for investigating the host galaxies of distant quasars with AO systems coupled with future Extremely Large Telescopes. Detailed simulations show that it will be possible to characterize compact (2-3 kpc) quasar host galaxies for quasi-stellar objects at z = 2 with nucleus K-magnitude spanning from 15 to 20 (corresponding to absolute magnitude -31 to -26) and host galaxies that are 4 mag fainter than their nuclei. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26222 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/38 | ISSN: | 0004-6256 | DOI: | 10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/38 | Bibcode ADS: | 2016AJ....152...38L | Fulltext: | open |
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