Large Scale Clustering of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars: Impact of the Baryon Density and the Cosmological Constant

Details Large Scale Clustering of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars: Impact of the Baryon Density and the Cosmological Constant Large Scale Clustering of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars: Impact of the Baryon Density and the Cosmological Constant

2004-12-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412631v3

Publ.Astron.Soc.Jap. 57 (2005) 529-540

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

26 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in the PASJ

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We report the first result of the clustering analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasars. We compute the two-point correlation function (2PCF) of SDSS quasars in redshift space at $8h^{-1}{\rm Mpc} < s < 500h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$, with particular attention to its baryonic signature. Our sample consists of 19986 quasars extracted from the SDSS Data Release 4 (DR4). The redshift range of the sample is $0.72 \le z \le 2.24$ (the mean redshift is $\bar z = 1.46$) and the reddening-corrected $i$-band apparent magnitude range is $15.0 \le m_{i,{\rm rc}} \le 19.1$. Due to the relatively low number density of the quasar sample, the bump in the power spectrum due to the baryon density, $\Omega_{\rm b}$, is not clearly visible. The effect of the baryon density is, however, to distort the overall shape of the 2PCF.The degree of distortion makes it an interesting alternate measure of the baryonic signature. Assuming a scale-independent linear bias and the spatially flat universe, i.e., $\Omega_{\rm b} + \Omega_{\rm d} + \Omega_\Lambda =1$, where $\Omega_{\rm d}$ and $\Omega_\Lambda$ denote the density parameters of dark matter and the cosmological constant, we combine the observed quasar 2PCF and the predicted matter 2PCF to put constraints on $\Omega_{\rm b}$ and $\Omega_\Lambda$. Our result is fitted as $0.80- 2.8\Omega_{\rm b} < \Omega_\Lambda < 0.90 - 1.4\Omega_{\rm b}$ at the 2$\sigma$ confidence level, which is consistent with results from other cosmological observations such as WMAP. (abridged)

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