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Interactions, Mergers, and QSO Activity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Alan Stockton
Alan Stockton*
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

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Is QSO activity sometimes triggered by interactions or mergers of galaxies? Are all QSOs the result of interactions or mergers? Such questions, arising explicitly in the late 1970s, had their roots in the well-known Stoking the Furnace? section of Toomre & Toomre (1972), the Feeding the Monster paper of Gunn (1979), and the early observational evidence that weaker forms of nuclear activity, such as Seyferts, seemed often to be found in interacting systems (e.g., Adams 1977). Reviews of the evidence regarding the relation of interactions and mergers to QSO activity have been given by Stockton (1990) and Heckman (1990). Some of the more important developments since these reviews are:

Type
Nuclear Activity
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 186: Galaxy Interactions at High and Low Redshift , 1999 , pp. 311 - 320
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Copyright © Kluwer 1999 

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