Witnessing the Violent, Merger-driven Formation of an Extremely Massive Galaxy 1.7 Gyr after the Big Bang
We combine near-infrared imaging in two bands from the Hubble Space Telescope with archival observations of molecular gas to study SDSS J160705.16+533558.6 (J1607), an extremely luminous broad-line quasar at z = 3.65 that is also bright in the submillimeter. Via subtraction of the quasar point-spread function, we show that its host galaxy is
Pitchford, L. K. et al.
Fecha de publicación:
11
2025