Clustering of high-redshift (z ≥ 2.9) quasars from the sloan digital sky survey

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2222-2241

  Shen, Yue ^a   Strauss, Michael A ^a   Oguri, Masamune ^a,b   Hennawi, Joseph F ^c   Xiaohui, Fan ^d   Richards, Gordon T ^e   Hall, Patrick B ^f   Gunn, James E ^a   Schneider, Donald P ^g   Szalay, Alexander S ^h   Thakar, Anirudda R ^h   Vanden Berk, Daniel E ^g   Anderson, Scott F ⁱ   Bahcall, Neta A ^a   Connolly, Andrew J ^j   Knapp, Gillian R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249324780     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513517     Document Type: Article

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