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

Unification and Evolution.- Remarks on the Extended Light in Quasars.- The Alignment Effect in Radio—Loud AGN: Ten Years After.- The Unified Schemes and Radio Polarization Studies.- Compact Steep-Spectrum Radio Sources.- Host Galaxies of Low Luminosity Radio QSOs.- Quasar Host Luminosities and the Evolutionary Unified Scheme.- Observing Quasar Host Galaxies.- Nearby Quasar Galaxies.- HST Images of Twenty Nearby Luminous Quasars.- Near-IR Properties of Quasar Host Galaxies.- JHK Imaging of QSO Hosts and Companions.- Resolution of High Redshift QSO Hosts.- The Nature of Radio Emission in Radio-Quiet QSOs.- Adaptive Optics Observations of Quasar Hosts.- HST Planetary Camera Images of Quasar Host Galaxies.- The Hosts of z = 2 QSOs.- Observing the Galaxy Environment of QSOs.- Limitations of Differential CCD Photometry Due to Weather Conditions.- The Host Galaxy of HE 1029–1401.- Star Formation and the ISM in Quasar Hosts.- Molecular Gas in Quasar Hosts.- CO Emission Lines from a Quasar at z=4.7.- Molecular Gas and Star Formation in I Zw 1.- The Epoch of Major Star Formation in High-z Quasar Hosts.- The Nuclear Stellar Cluster in NGC 1068.- ISO Observations of Quasars and Quasar Hosts.- ISO Observations of Seyfert Galaxies.- Origin of Spread in the B — K Color of Quasars.- Using HI to Probe AGN Hosts and Their Nuclei.- The Large-Scale Environments of Low Redshift Radio-Quiet Quasars.- High Velocity Resolution Observations of the ISM in NGC 4151.- Mg2 Index Map of the Centre of NGC 7331.- Stellar Dynamics of Two AGNs.- The Radio Loud/Quiet Dichotomy.- Infrared Imaging and Off-Nuclear Spectroscopy of Quasar Hosts.- The Radio Properties of Radio-Quiet Quasars.- HST Imaging of Redshift z > 0.5 7C and 3C Quasars.- HST Imaging of BL Lac Objects.- Near-IR Imaging of BL LacHost Galaxies.- HST Imaging of Quasar Host Galaxies Selected by Quasar Radio and Optical Properties.- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy of BL Lac Objects.- Host Galaxies of Radio-Loud AGN.- Host Galaxies of Intermediate Redshift Radio-Loud and Radio-Quiet Quasars.- Some Examples of the Extremely Close Environments of BL Lac Objects.- The Optical Jet in 3C 371.- Low Redshift Populations.- Infrared QSOs.- HST Images of Warm Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: QSO Host Progenitors.- ISO-SWS Results on Ultraluminous IRAS Galaxies.- Quest for Type-2 Quasars with ASCA.- The Local Luminosity Function of Quasars — Implications for Host Galaxy Studies.- B-K Colours of Low-Luminosity Radio Quasars.- Cygnus A: Host Galaxy of a Nearby Quasar?.- X-Ray Extended AGN?.- A Search for Galaxies with a Variable Nucleus.- Proper Motions in the Center of the Galaxy.- The Seyfert Nucleus in the SO Galaxy NGC 5252.- NGC 3393 — Broad(er) Lines in a Nearby Seyfert 2 Galaxy.- AGNs with Composite Spectra.- Nuclear Activity in Very Nearby Galaxies.- The Spectral Variability of QSOs in the Optical Bands.- Radio Galaxies at High Redshift.- Radio Galaxies at High Redshift: Unification and Host Galaxies.- The Nature of the UV Excess.- The Role of Shocks in the Extended Emission Line Regions of Powerful Radio Galaxies.- The Hosts of High-z Powerful Radio Sources: Keck Observations.

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the ESO/IAC workshop on Quasar Hosts. They summarize the current state of research on the host galaxies of quasars and present new observations, including data from the Keck, HST, and ISO. Separate sections deal with direct observations of quasar hosts, the radio loud/quiet dichotomy, unification schemes, radio galaxies at high redshift, star formation and the interstellar medium in quasar hosts, and low redshift populations. These topics were covered in review talks, contributed talks, and poster presentations, all of which are included in this volume. This book is intended primarily for professional astronomers and students, including both observers and theorists.