QSO hosts and their environments

Advanced technologies in astronomy at various wavelengths have provided us with high resolution and high quality data on the QSO population. This meeting was aimed at understanding the morphology and nature of the host galaxies and environments of QSOs. The invited lectures as well as the contributed and poster papers highlighted the main issues of current research: the stellar and gaseous content of the underlying galaxy; the characterization of the population of companions and the nature of their interaction with the host galaxy; the connection between radio-loud QSO and radio-galaxies, and QSOs and ULIRGs; the evolution with redshift of both the host galaxy and its environment, and the main implications in theories of galaxy formation and evolution. This volume provides a valuable overview and timely update of the exciting and rapidly developing field of QSO hosts and their environments - essential reading for graduate students and researchers.

0.5 -- Associated absorption and radio source growth -- Host galaxies of RGB BL Lacertae objects -- On The Parent Population of Radio Galaxies and the FR I--II Dichotomy -- The real difference between radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs -- Broadband optical colours of intermediate redshift QSO host galaxies -- Three peculiar objects from a new sample of radio galaxies -- QSO hosts and companions at higher redshift -- The luminosity function of QSO host galaxies -- QSO host galaxy star formation history from multicolour data -- Near-infrared imaging of steep spectrum radio quasars -- Adaptive-optics imaging of low and intermediate redshift quasars -- Subaru Observations of the Host Galaxies and the Environments of the Radio Galaxy 3C324 at z = 1.1 -- Extremely red radio galaxies -- The environments of radio-loud quasars -- Extended X-ray emission around radio-loud quasars -- WFPC2 Imaging of Quasar Environments -- Deceleration and asymmetry in QSO radio map -- Spatially resolved spectroscopy of emission-line gas in QSO Host galaxies -- Host Galaxies and the Spectral Variability of Quasars -- The AGN-Starburst Connection in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies -- The QSO -- Ultraluminous Inf…