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Quasar clustering around the Sculptor region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

D. Kunth  and
W.L.W. Sargent
D. Kunth
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris, France
W.L.W. Sargent
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

Abstract

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The Sculptor Region has been searched for quasar candidates: three IIIa-J objective prism plates from the UK Schmidt-telescope centred around the NGC55 and NGC300 galaxies have been used. 76 quasars have been found doubling the number of quasars previously known in this field. A test using Monte-Carlo simulations to reshuffle redshifts of the quasar sample shows that a simple eye examination of the simulated distributions produces as many quasar pairs or associations than in the original field. A further preliminary quantitative study using the autocorrelation function shows that quasar clustering is absent on any scale from 10 to 3500 Mpc (Ho=100).

Type
V. Cosmological Studies, Clustering, Isotropy etc
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 119: Quasars , 1986 , pp. 505 - 508
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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