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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 317, 期 4, 页码 1023-1028出版社
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03752.x
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galaxies : active; galaxies : photometry; quasars : general; infrared : galaxies
We present JHKL(1) photometry of a complete sample of steep-spectrum radio-loud quasars from the revised 3CR catalogue in the redshift range 0.65 less than or equal to z < 1.20. After correcting for contributions from emission lines and the host galaxies, we investigate their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) around 1 mu m. About 75 per cent of the quasars are tightly grouped in the plane of optical spectral index, alpha(opt), versus near-infrared spectral index, alpha(IR), with the median value of alpha(opt) close to the canonical value, and the median alpha(IR) slightly flatter. We conclude that the fraction of moderately obscured, red quasars decreases with increasing radio power, in accordance with the 'receding torus' model which can also explain the relatively flat median near-infrared spectra of the 3CR quasars. Two of the red quasars have inverted infrared spectral indices, and we suggest that their unusual SEDs might result from a combination of dust-scattered and transmitted quasar light.
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