Quasar-ULIRG Evolution STudy openParQUESTclosePar: X-ray Survey of PG QSOs

As the final element of QUEST, a comprehensive multiwavelength program on localmassive gasrich mergers (ULIRGs & QSOs), we propose to obtain EPIC imaging dataon the remaining 10 of 25 PG QSOs in the QUEST sample that have not beenobserved by XMM or Chandra. The main goal of the program is to determine theevolution of the energy source and the feeding/growth rate of BHs along themerger sequence (from mergers to ULIRGs to QSOs) as well as to find if there isa fundamental link between ULIRGs, IRexcess QSOs, and optical QSOs. Theseobservations will supplement data already obtained with HST, SST, VLT, and IRAM.The Xray data will become part of graduate student S. Teng.s Ph.D. thesis. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]