Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997aas...191.8709h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 191st AAS Meeting, #87.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1355
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Because of their high luminosities quasars are potentially valuable probes of the large-scale structure of the universe at moderate and high redshifts. However, clustering studies to date have given contradictory results. We present the results of a study of the clustering properties of quasars in well-surveyed regions of the sky. We find that only a few regions are well enough surveyed to produce useful results. By studying the variance of quasar counts in cells (see Andreani et al. 1994, ApJ, 458), which gives a volume average of the correlation function, we find that if there is clustering, it is, at best, only weak. We discuss some effects which can artificially raise the apparent clustering.
Gaskell Martin C.
Hall Brian C.
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