1203.4570 (Jonathan Richardson et al.)

The Halo Occupation Distribution of SDSS Quasars    [PDF]

Jonathan Richardson, Zheng Zheng, Suchetana Chatterjee, Daisuke Nagai, Yue Shen

We present an estimate of the projected two-point correlation function (2PCF) of quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) over the full range of one- and two-halo scales, 0.02-120 Mpc/h. This was achieved by combining data from SDSS DR7 on large scales and Hennawi et al. (2006; with appropriate statistical corrections) on small scales. Our combined clustering sample is the largest spectroscopic quasar clustering sample to date, containing ~48,000 quasars in the redshift range 0.4View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4570