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Are Extremely Luminous Far-Infrared Galaxies the Result of Merging Quasar Cores?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R.P. Norris
R.P. Norris*
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility

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Extremely Luminous far-infrared galaxies (ELFs) are a class of galaxy discovered independently by several groups. The class is characterised by a quasar-like total luminosity (1011 — 1013 L⊙) which is radiated almost entirely in the far-infrared, and it has been suggested that obscured quasar cores may be responsible for generating this luminosity. Here I demonstrate that ELFs appear in several guises which can be characterised by the number of quasar cores they contain (zero, one or two), and develop a unified model to account for these differences.

Type
V. Observations of Nuclear and Near-Nuclear Activity
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 124: Paired and Interacting Galaxies , 1990 , pp. 387 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1990

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