Progress Report on a New Survey to Study the Clustering Properties of Quasars At z ~ 2

Abstract

Quasars continue to be the only objects for which redshifts can be measured at z ~ 2. If they represent the large scale distribution of matter in the universe, such quasars will provide important information about the state of clustering when the universe was one third its present age. As we have been hearing at this meeting, the pancake theory of cluster formation on the one hand and the hierarchical clustering theory on the other make opposite predictions about the development of large scale clustering; the former has initial large scale structures while in the latter picture large scale clusters are recent developments. Even if the quasars are not representative of the large scale matter distribution, their space distribution will contain clues about how they formed, so that it is important to determine observationally what clustering properties they have.KeywordsGalaxy ClusterCluster PropertyLarge Scale DistributionVisual SampleOpposite PredictionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.