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Young Giant Elliptical Galaxies: Where are They?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Roberto Terlevich
Roberto Terlevich*
Affiliation:
Royal Greenwich Observatory. Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EZ U.K.

Abstract

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Recent work have raised the intriguing possibility that the activity seen in most active galactic nuclei (AGN) is powered solely by young stars and supernova remnants in a burst of star formation at the time when the metal rich core of the spheroid of a normal, albeit young galaxy, was formed. The predicted emitted multifrequency spectrum, line width, variability and luminosity function of the young cores of ellipticals, are indistiguishable from those observed in Quasars. Only a small fraction (~5%) of the total mass of elliptical galaxies, the core mass, is needed to explain the observed luminosities and luminosity function of Quasars at z≥2.0.

Keywords

Young galaxiesElliptical galaxiesActive Galactic Nuclei
Type
III. The Stellar Populations of Non-Resolved Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 149: The Stellar populations of Galaxies , 1992 , pp. 271 - 276
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 

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