Issue |
A&A
Volume 614, June 2018
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Article Number | L2 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Letters to the Editor | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833363 | |
Published online | 14 June 2018 |
Letter to the Editor
Cosmic dance at z ~ 3: Detecting the host galaxies of the dual AGN system LBQS 0302–0019 and Jil with HAWK-I+GRAAL⋆
1
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
e-mail: husemann@mpia-hd.mpg.de
2
Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
3
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
4
Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Received:
4
May
2018
Accepted:
23
May
2018
We recently discovered that the luminous radio-quiet quasi-stellar objects (QSO) LBQS 0302–0019 at z = 3.286 is likely accompanied by an obscured AGN at 20 kpc projected distance, which we dubbed Jil. It represents the tightest candidate system of an obscured and unobscured dual AGN at z > 3. To verify the dual AGN scenario, we obtained deep Ks band (rest-frame V band) imaging with the VLT/HAWK-I+GRAAL instrument at 0.″4 resolution during science verification in January 2018. We detect the individual host galaxies of the QSO and Jil with estimated stellar masses of log(M⋆/M⊙) = 11.4 ± 0.5 and log(M⋆/M⊙) = 0.9 ± 0.5, respectively. Near-IR spectra obtained with Very Large Telescope-K-band Multi Object Spectrograph (VLT-KMOS) reveal a clear [O III] λ5007 line detection at the location of Jil that does not contribute significantly to the Ks band flux. Both observations therefore corroborate the dual AGN scenario. A comparison to Illustris simulations suggests a parent halo mass of log(Mhalo/M⊙) = 13.2 ± 0.5 for this interacting galaxy system, corresponding to a massive dark matter halo at that epoch.
Key words: Galaxies: interactions / Galaxies: high-redshift / large-scale structure of Universe / instrumentation: adaptive optics / quasars: individual: LBQS 0302−0018
© ESO 2018
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