The Variance of QSO Counts in Cells

Details The Variance of QSO Counts in Cells The Variance of QSO Counts in Cells

1993-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9312055v1

Astrophys.J. 430 (1994) 458

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages in plain Tex, 5 figures available in postscript in a separate file, submitted to ApJ, DAPD-333

Scientific paper

10.1086/174422

{}From three quasar samples with a total of 1038 objects in the redshift range $1.0 \div 2.2$ we measure the variance $\sigma^2$ of counts in cells of volume $V_u$. By a maximum likelihood analysis applied separately on these samples we obtain estimates of $\sigma^2(\ell)$, with $\ell \equiv V_u^{1/3}$. The analysis from a single catalog for $\ell = ~40~h^{-1}$ Mpc and from a suitable average over the three catalogs for $\ell = ~60,~80$ and $100~h^{-1}$ Mpc, gives $\sigma^2(\ell) = 0.46^{+0.27}_{-0.27}$, $0.18^{+0.14}_{-0.15}$, $0.05^{+0.14}_{-0.05}$ and $0.12^{+0.13}_{-0.12}$, respectively, where the $70\%$ confidence ranges account for both sampling errors and statistical fluctuations in the counts. This allows a comparison of QSO clustering on large scales with analogous data recently obtained both for optical and IRAS galaxies: QSOs seem to be more clustered than these galaxies by a biasing factor $b_{QSO}/b_{gal} \sim 1.4 - 2.3$.

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