Candidate High Redshift Clusters Around Radio Loud Quasars

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Dec 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aas...189.1009h&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 189th AAS Meeting, #10.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1287

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We report results of an r and K band imaging survey of radio-loud quasars (RLQs) at z=0.6--2.0. It is known that the environments of luminous RLQs evolve rapidly with redshift: at z=0.6 such RLQs are often found in Abell richness 0--1 clusters, but at z<0.5 they are never found in such rich environments. This indicates that the evolution of quasars is tied to their environments. The outstanding feature of quasar evolution is the huge decline in space density from z=2 to z=0, but almost nothing is known of quasar environments at z>0.7. To investigate RLQ environments to high redshift and to assemble and study a sample of high-redshift galaxies, we have searched for galaxies and clusters around a carefully selected sample of RLQs with 0.63 Gyr old. Such galaxies can potentially constrain the cosmology by requiring high ages for the universe at large lookback times. These candidate z ~ 1.5 clusters are being studied in detail with ongoing multicolor imaging, upcoming optical and IR spectroscopy, and proposed HST observations. These data will provide photometric and spectroscopic redshifts and will measure the color, color-magnitude slope, and scatter in the `red envelope' of early-type galaxies in the color-magnitude diagram and thus constrain the formation epoch, differential evolution, and coevality of such galaxies, respectively, within a cluster and between different clusters at z ~ 1.5. These z ~ 1.5 cluster candidates provide excellent tests of the coevality of early-type cluster galaxies, since such tests are more sensitive the closer to the formation epoch they are performed.

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