Fabienne Casoli
DEMIRM, Observatoire de Paris
Laurent Loinard
IRAM
We present preliminary results of an ongoing survey of the CO(1-0) line
emission
in
a sample of quasars observedwith the Plateau de Bure interferometer. The
sample
is extracted from a recent survey with the HST
of nearby (z < 0.3) bright quasars (Bahcall et al. 1997). First results
indicate
that a large fraction of these quasars host considerable amounts of
molecular gas (ranging from several 109 M
to 5 1010 M
. In
one of the sources, PKS2349-014, we have detected the millimeter
counterparts of
the radio lobes seen at 21 cm.
Bahcall, J. N., Kirhakos, S., Schneider, D. P., 1997, ApJ 479, 642