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类星体成团的预测:红移、亮度和选择依赖性

Predictions of Quasar Clustering: Redshift, Luminosity and Selection Dependence

Robert J. Thacker, Evan Scannapieco, H. M. P. Couchman, Mark Richardson

摘要:

我们表明,目前的类星体和发光活动星系核的集群观测可以解释的合并模型增强反馈流出。利用足够大的数值模拟来研究25个共动h^{-1} Mpc的集群,我们计算了活动星系核红移、光学和X射线光度与关联函数、偏差和关联长度的关系。在光波长,我们的结果匹配广泛的当前观测,并生成对未来数据集的预测。我们重现了弱的光度依赖的集群在目前良好的测量范围内,并预测在更高的光度更强的依赖。斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)中观察到的二元类星体集群的振幅增加也被再现,并预测会发生在更高的红移,这种效应是由于关联函数中的一个晕项。另一方面,我们的结果不匹配的快速演变的SDSS中观察到的相关长度在z \simeq 3,一个差异,至少部分是由于我们的模拟与本调查的尺度探测的差异。事实上,我们表明,改变从我们的模拟采样的距离可以产生高达40%的变化,在拟合的相关长度。最后,在X射线中,我们的模拟产生的相关长度与在Chandra Deep Field(CDF)North中观察到的相似,但不是在CDF South中观察到的显著更大的相关长度。

英文摘要:

We show that current clustering observations of quasars and luminous AGN can be explained by a merger model augmented by feedback from outflows. Using numerical simulations large enough to study clustering out to 25 comoving h^{-1} Mpc, we calculate correlation functions, biases, and correlation lengths as a function of AGN redshift and optical and X-ray luminosity. At optical wavelengths, our results match a wide range of current observations and generate predictions for future data sets. We reproduce the weak luminosity dependence of clustering over the currently well-measured range, and predict a much stronger dependence at higher luminosities. The increase in the amplitude of binary quasar clustering observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is also reproduced and is predicted to occur at higher redshift, an effect that is due to the one halo term in the correlation function. On the other hand, our results do not match the rapid evolution of the correlation length observed in the SDSS at z\simeq 3, a discrepancy that is at least partially due to differences in the scales probed by our simulation versus this survey. In fact, we show that changing the distances sampled from our simulations can produce changes as large as 40% in the fitted correlation lengths. Finally, in the X-ray, our simulations produce correlation lengths similar to that observed in the Chandra Deep Field (CDF) North, but not the significantly larger correlation length observed in the CDF South.

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