QSO Clustering - Part One - Optical Surveys in the Redshift Range 0.3<Z<2.2

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Dec 1994

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 271, NO. 4/DEC15, P. 753, 1994

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We present QSO clustering results from ~700 QSOs detected in three surveys, including the Durham/AAT UVX Survey. We have made a 4σ detection of QSO clustering at scales of < 10 h^-1^ Mpc (q_0_ = 0.5), stronger than expected on the basis of models of the evolution of the galaxy correlation function where the clustering is assumed to be stable in proper coordinates. A model in which QSOs randomly sample a galaxy distribution with present-day clustering coherence length, r_0_ ~ 6 h^-1^ Mpc, and which is fixed in comoving coordinates, is strongly suggested by the data; a stable-clustering, high-amplitude (r_0_ ~ 11 h^-1^ Mpc) model can be excluded when the low-redshift Seyfert clustering results of Georgantopoulos & Shanks (Paper II) are considered. The conclusion that ultraviolet-excess (UVX) QSOs randomly sample the underlying galaxy distribution is also given strong support from the observation by Ellingson, Yee & Green that the clustering environment of z ~ 0.6 radio- quiet QSOs is no different from that of average galaxies. Our results therefore suggest that a comoving model may also describe the evolution of galaxy clustering out to z = 2.2; such a model is consistent with biased models of galaxy clustering with either q_0_ = 0.01 or q_0_ = 0.5. We have also tentatively detected, at a lower level of significance (~2σ), anticorrelation at the ξ ~ -0.1 level in the range 40 < r < 100 h^-1^ Mpc in the q_0_ = 0.5 QSO correlation function. Anticorrelation is expected in models where the power-law spectral index, n, of the primordial mass spectrum has a value >= 1. No other features are detectable at the +/- 0.05 level in ξ at any scale in the range 10 < r < 1000 h^-1^ Mpc. Finally, we show that the spatial position of features in the QSO correlation function is very sensitive to the cosmological model. In particular, we find that, in a model with zero spatial curvature, {LAMBDA} not equal to 0 and {OMEGA}_0_ < 0.03, the QSO clustering extends up to a comoving scale of ~40 h^-1^ Mpc, and we suggest that, at the 3σ level, it is difficult to reconcile this {LAMBDA} not equal to 0 result with the known correlation functions of galaxies and Seyferts at low redshift.

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