Quasar Hosts: Proceedings of the ESO-IAC Conference Held on Tenerife, Spain, 24–27 September 1996

Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Remarks on the Extended Light in Quasars....Pages 3-4
The Alignment Effect in Radio—Loud AGN: Ten Years After....Pages 5-12
The Unified Schemes and Radio Polarization Studies....Pages 13-18
Compact Steep-Spectrum Radio Sources....Pages 19-20
Host Galaxies of Low Luminosity Radio QSOs....Pages 21-22
Quasar Host Luminosities and the Evolutionary Unified Scheme....Pages 23-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Nearby Quasar Galaxies....Pages 27-36
HST Images of Twenty Nearby Luminous Quasars....Pages 37-44
Near-IR Properties of Quasar Host Galaxies....Pages 45-50
JHK Imaging of QSO Hosts and Companions....Pages 51-57
Resolution of High Redshift QSO Hosts....Pages 58-62
The Nature of Radio Emission in Radio-Quiet QSOs....Pages 63-69
Adaptive Optics Observations of Quasar Hosts....Pages 70-75
HST Planetary Camera Images of Quasar Host Galaxies....Pages 76-83
The Hosts of z = 2 QSOs....Pages 84-89
Observing the Galaxy Environment of QSOs....Pages 90-91
Limitations of Differential CCD Photometry Due to Weather Conditions....Pages 92-95
The Host Galaxy of HE 1029–1401....Pages 96-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Molecular Gas in Quasar Hosts....Pages 101-109
CO Emission Lines from a Quasar at z=4.7....Pages 110-115
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Molecular Gas and Star Formation in I Zw 1....Pages 116-121
The Epoch of Major Star Formation in High-z Quasar Hosts....Pages 122-127
The Nuclear Stellar Cluster in NGC 1068....Pages 128-135
ISO Observations of Quasars and Quasar Hosts....Pages 136-143
ISO Observations of Seyfert Galaxies....Pages 144-149
Origin of Spread in the B — K Color of Quasars....Pages 150-155
Using HI to Probe AGN Hosts and Their Nuclei....Pages 156-161
The Large-Scale Environments of Low Redshift Radio-Quiet Quasars....Pages 162-167
High Velocity Resolution Observations of the ISM in NGC 4151....Pages 168-170
Mg 2 Index Map of the Centre of NGC 7331....Pages 171-172
Stellar Dynamics of Two AGNs....Pages 173-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Infrared Imaging and Off-Nuclear Spectroscopy of Quasar Hosts....Pages 177-184
The Radio Properties of Radio-Quiet Quasars....Pages 185-187
HST Imaging of Redshift z > 0.5 7C and 3C Quasars....Pages 188-193
HST Imaging of BL Lac Objects....Pages 194-199
Near-IR Imaging of BL Lac Host Galaxies....Pages 200-205
HST Imaging of Quasar Host Galaxies Selected by Quasar Radio and Optical Properties....Pages 206-211
Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy of BL Lac Objects....Pages 212-214
Host Galaxies of Radio-Loud AGN....Pages 215-216
Host Galaxies of Intermediate Redshift Radio-Loud and Radio-Quiet Quasars....Pages 217-222
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Some Examples of the Extremely Close Environments of BL Lac Objects....Pages 223-224
The Optical Jet in 3C 371....Pages 225-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-228
Infrared QSOs....Pages 229-235
HST Images of Warm Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: QSO Host Progenitors....Pages 236-241
ISO-SWS Results on Ultraluminous IRAS Galaxies....Pages 242-247
Quest for Type-2 Quasars with ASCA....Pages 248-253
The Local Luminosity Function of Quasars — Implications for Host Galaxy Studies....Pages 254-259
B-K Colours of Low-Luminosity Radio Quasars....Pages 260-265
Cygnus A: Host Galaxy of a Nearby Quasar?....Pages 266-271
X-Ray Extended AGN?....Pages 272-277
A Search for Galaxies with a Variable Nucleus....Pages 278-281
Proper Motions in the Center of the Galaxy....Pages 282-287
The Seyfert Nucleus in the SO Galaxy NGC 5252....Pages 288-290
NGC 3393 — Broad(er) Lines in a Nearby Seyfert 2 Galaxy....Pages 291-292
AGNs with Composite Spectra....Pages 293-294
Nuclear Activity in Very Nearby Galaxies....Pages 295-296
The Spectral Variability of QSOs in the Optical Bands....Pages 297-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Radio Galaxies at High Redshift: Unification and Host Galaxies....Pages 303-310
The Nature of the UV Excess....Pages 311-319
The Role of Shocks in the Extended Emission Line Regions of Powerful Radio Galaxies....Pages 320-326
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
The Hosts of High- z Powerful Radio Sources: Keck Observations....Pages 327-333
Back Matter....Pages 335-337