Radio-quiet Qso Environments -i. the Correlation of Qsos and B J < 23 Galaxies

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  • Scott M. Croom
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In this paper we present results of an analysis of radio-quiet QSO environments. The aim is to determine the relation between QSOs, galaxies and the mass distribution as a function of redshift. We cross-correlate a sample of 150 QSOs from optically and X-ray selected catalogues with faint, b J < 23, galaxies. These data allow us to probe the galaxy clustering environment of QSOs out to z 1:0 ? 1:5. Far from giving a positive correlation, at z < 1:5 the QSO-galaxy cross-correlation function is marginally negative, with !(< 120 00) = ?0:027 0:020. Colour information suggests that the anti-correlation is most signiicant between the QSOs and the red galaxy population. We have constructed models to predict the QSO-galaxy cross-correlation, using the known form of the galaxy N (z) at b J < 23, and assuming a variety of clustering evolution rates. Cases in which QSOs exist in rich cluster environments are comfortably ruled out at more than 5 and the results are more consistent with a `normal' galaxy environment for radio-quiet QSOs. If the small anti-correlation is interpreted as an eeect of gravitational lensing, this conclusion is not altered. In this case, the data are only 1 below the low clustering amplitude models, while the high amplitude models are still comfortably rejected. We therefore conclude that these QSOs may not be much more highly biased than optically selected galaxies.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007