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Herschel ATLAS : the cosmic star formation history of quasar host galaxies

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We present a derivation of the star formation rate per comoving volume of quasar host galaxies, derived from stacking analyses of far-infrared to mm-wave photometry of quasars with redshifts 0 z 6 and absolute I-band magnitudes -22 > I-AB > -32 We use the science demonstration observations of the first similar to 16 deg(2) from the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) in which there are 240 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and a further 171 from the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. We supplement this data with a compilation of data from IRAS, ISO, Spitzer, SCUBA and MAMBO. H-ATLAS alone statistically detects the quasars in its survey area at > 5 sigma at 250, 350 and 500 mu m. From the compilation as a whole we find striking evidence of downsizing in quasar host galaxy formation: low-luminosity quasars with absolute magnitudes in the range -22 > I-AB > -24 have a comoving star formation rate (derived from 100 mu m rest-frame luminosities) peaking between redshifts of 1 and 2, while high-luminosity quasars with I-AB -26 have a maximum contribution to the star formation density at z similar to 3. The volume-averaged star formation rate of -22 > IAB > -24 quasars evolves as (1 + z)(2.3 +/- 0.7) at z 2, but the evolution at higher luminosities is much faster reaching (1 + z)(10 +/- 1) at -26 > I-AB > -28. We tentatively interpret this as a combination of a declining major merger rate with time and gas consumption reducing fuel for both black hole accretion and star formation.
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infrared: galaxies, quasars: general, galaxies: active, galaxies: formation, submillimeter: galaxies, galaxies: starburst, SPECTRAL ENERGY-DISTRIBUTIONS, SUPERMASSIVE BLACK-HOLES, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, MM MAMBO/IRAM-30 M, SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES, DUST EMISSION, SURVEY SBQS, EVOLUTION, CONSTRAINTS, DETECTIONS

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Serjeant, S., et al. “Herschel ATLAS : The Cosmic Star Formation History of Quasar Host Galaxies.” ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, vol. 518, 2010, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201014565.
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Serjeant, S., Bertoldi, F., Blain, A., Clements, D., Cooray, A., Danese, L., … Verma, A. (2010). Herschel ATLAS : the cosmic star formation history of quasar host galaxies. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 518. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014565
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Serjeant, S, F Bertoldi, AW Blain, DL Clements, A Cooray, L Danese, J Dunlop, et al. 2010. “Herschel ATLAS : The Cosmic Star Formation History of Quasar Host Galaxies.” ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 518. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014565.
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Serjeant, S, F Bertoldi, AW Blain, DL Clements, A Cooray, L Danese, J Dunlop, L Dunne, S Eales, J Falder, E Hatziminaoglou, DH Hughes, E Ibar, MJ Jarvis, A Lawrence, MG Lee, M Michalowski, M Negrello, A Omont, M Page, C Pearson, PP van der Werf, G White, A Amblard, R Auld, Maarten Baes, DG Bonfield, D Burgarella, S Buttiglione, A Cava, A Dariush, G de Zotti, S Dye, D Frayer, Jacopo Fritz, J Gonzalez-Nuevo, D Herranz, RJ Ivison, G Lagache, L Leeuw, M Lopez-Caniego, S Maddox, E Pascale, M Pohlen, E Rigby, G Rodighiero, S Samui, B Sibthorpe, DJB Smith, P Temi, M Thompson, I Valtchanov, and A Verma. 2010. “Herschel ATLAS : The Cosmic Star Formation History of Quasar Host Galaxies.” ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 518. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201014565.
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Serjeant S, Bertoldi F, Blain A, Clements D, Cooray A, Danese L, et al. Herschel ATLAS : the cosmic star formation history of quasar host galaxies. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2010;518.
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S. Serjeant et al., “Herschel ATLAS : the cosmic star formation history of quasar host galaxies,” ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, vol. 518, 2010.
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