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A&A
Volume 585, January 2016
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Article Number | A142 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527394 | |
Published online | 12 January 2016 |
Research Note
The far-infrared emission of the radio-loud quasar 3C 318
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
e-mail: podigachoski@astro.rug.nl
Received: 18 September 2015
Accepted: 12 November 2015
3C 318, a radio-loud quasar at z = 1.574, is a subgalactic-sized radio source, and a good test-bed for the interplay between black hole and galaxy growth in the high-z Universe. Based on its IRAS, ISO, and SCUBA detections, it has long been considered as one of the most intrinsically luminous (LIR > 1013 L⊙) infrared sources in the Universe. Recent far-infrared data from the Herschel Space Observatory reveal that most of the flux associated with 3C 318, measured with earlier instruments, in fact comes from a bright nearby source. Optical imaging and spectroscopy show that this infrared-bright source is a strongly star-forming pair of interacting galaxies at z = 0.35. Adding existing Spitzer and SDSS photometry, we perform a spectral energy distribution analysis of the pair, and find that it has a combined infrared luminosity of LIR = 1.5 × 1012 L⊙, comparable to other intermediate-redshift ultra-luminous infrared galaxies studied with Herschel. Isolating the emission from 3C 318’s host, we robustly constrain the level of star formation to a value a factor of three lower than that published earlier, which is more in line with the star formation activity found in other Herschel-detected 3CR objects at similar redshift.
Key words: galaxies: active / galaxies: high-redshift / galaxies: star formation / infrared: galaxies / quasars: individual: 3C 318
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