Star formation in z>1 3CR host galaxies as seen by Herschel
  We present Herschel (PACS and SPIRE) far-infrared (FIR) photometry of a
complete sample of z>1 3CR sources, from the Herschel GT project The Herschel
Legacy of distant radio-loud AGN (PI: Barthel). Combining these with existing
Spitzer photometric data, we perform an infrared (IR) spectral energy
distribution (SED) analysis of these landmark objects in extragalactic research
to study the star formation in the hosts of some of the brightest active
galactic nuclei (AGN) known at any epoch. Accounting for the contribution from
an AGN-powered warm dust component to the IR SED, about 40% of our objects
undergo episodes of prodigious, ULIRG-strength star formation, with rates of
hundreds of solar masses per year, coeval with the growth of the central
supermassive black hole. Median SEDs imply that the quasar and radio galaxy
hosts have similar FIR properties, in agreement with the orientation-based
unification for radio-loud AGN. The star-forming properties of the AGN hosts
are similar to those of the general population of equally massive non-AGN
galaxies at comparable redshifts, thus there is no strong evidence of universal
quenching of star formation (negative feedback) within this sample. Massive
galaxies at high redshift may be forming stars prodigiously, regardless of
whether their supermassive black holes are accreting or not.
