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Cambridge University Press (CUP), Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, S304(9), p. 195-198, 2013

DOI: 10.1017/s1743921314003743

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Red QSOs in the MBH-M∗ plane

Journal article published in 2013 by Angela Bongiorno ORCID
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Abstract

AbstractWe present new results on the the MBH-M∗ relation of X-ray obscured, red QSOs at high redshift (1.2<z<2.6). The sample is made of 21 red QSOs, nine of them are new sources for which near-infrared spectra have been obtained with SINFONI and XShooter observations at ESO VLT, and show a broad Hα component. The rest of the sample (12 sources) is made of sources taken from the literature with similar properties. From the broad Hα line we have computed the BH masses through the virial formula while stellar masses have been obtained through multi-component SED fitting.We find that red QSOs preferentially lie on the local relation up to z ~ 2.6 with the most massive objects mainly located above it. We also studied the evolution of these sources on the MBH-M∗ plane compared to a sample of optically blue type–1 QSOs and we find that obscured red QSOs show a constant MBH/M∗ ratio consistent/slightly higher than the local one but lower than what has been found for blue QSOs. These sources may represent the intermediate phase (blow-out phase) between the major-merger induced starbursts which appear as ULIRGs and SMGs and the optical type–1 blue QSOs which are revealed once the dust and nuclear gas is cleared up.

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