Abstract
The hypothesis that some or all quasars originate in ejection events from galaxies (Arp 1987) implies that many of the brightest quasars will be associated with the brightest nearby galaxies. This is particularly true if the dispersion in intrinsic luminosities among, assumed local, quasars is small. This is a difficult prediction to test for at least two reasons: 1) quasar samples are incomplete even at very bright apparent magnitude levels (e.g. m≤17.5) and 2) the correlation scale is unknown but can be expected to be quite large (many degrees). The latter conclusion is forced upon us by the observation that bright quasars are found in regions of the sky where there are few bright galaxies. Recent tests (Sulentic 1988) involving quasars (m≤17.5) and low redshift galaxies (m≤11.0) imply a correlation between these two classes.
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