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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 625, Issue 1, Pages L27-L30Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/430830
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galaxies : active; galaxies : jets; galaxies : stellar content instrumentation; adaptive optics
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The Center for Adaptive Optics Treasury Survey aims to combine deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images in the optical with deep Keck adaptive optics (AO) data in the near-infrared (NIR) to study distant galaxies, active galactic nuclei, and supernovae. We recently achieved an important new milestone by securing the first Keck laser guide star AO image of faint galaxies. Six galaxies with redshifts ranging from 0.3 to 1.0 were targeted in one pointing in the GOODS-S field. Two are Chandra Deep Field-South sources, XID-56 and XID-536, with complex morphologies suggestive of recent merger activity. Substructures seen in the NIR AO image (FWHM similar to 0.1), including multiple tight knots in XID-56 and a double nucleus in XID-536, are confirmed in the optical HST images. These structures are unresolved in the best seeing- limited (similar to 0.5 FWHM) NIR images. Stellar population synthesis models of the substructures indicate that XID-56 is a gas-rich merger with a recent burst of star formation and significant amounts of dust. XID-536 appears to be a merger of two evolved stellar populations.
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