Binary quasars in the sloan digital sky survey: Evidence for excess clustering on small scales

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-23

  Hennawi, Joseph F ^a,b   Strauss, Michael A ^b   Oguri, Masamune ^b,c   Inada, Naohisa ^c   Richards, Gordon T ^b   Pindor, Bartosz ^d   Schneider, Donald P ^e   Becker, Robert H ^f,g   Gregg, Michael D ^f,g   Hall, Patrick B ^h   Johnston, David E ^b   Fan, Xiaohui ⁱ   Burles, Scott ^j   Schlegel, David J ^k   Gunn, James E ^b   Lupton, Robert H ^b   Bahcall, Neta A ^b   Brunner, Robert J ^l   Brinkmann, Jon ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^j MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^m APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Large scale structure of universe; Quasars: general; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 31544436938     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498235     Document Type: Review

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