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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 719, Issue 2, Pages 1693-1698Publisher
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DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/719/2/1693
Keywords
black hole physics; cosmology: observations; galaxies: active; large-scale structure of universe; quasars: general; surveys
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- NSF [AST-0707266, AST-0607634, AST-0407448]
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- NASA [NNG05GH77G]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Ajax Foundation
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [909182] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present measurements of the small-scale (0.1 less than or similar to r less than or similar to 1 h(-1) Mpc) quasar two-point correlation function at z > 2.9, for a flux-limited (i < 21) sample of 15 binary quasars compiled by Hennawi et al. The amplitude of the small-scale clustering increases from z similar to 3 to z similar to 4. The small-scale clustering amplitude is comparable to or lower than power-law extrapolations (assuming a fixed slope gamma = 2) from the large-scale correlation function of the i < 20.2 quasar sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using simple prescriptions relating quasars to dark matter halos, we model the observed small-scale clustering with halo occupation models. We found that the level of small-scale clustering favors an active fraction of black holes in (M greater than or similar to 1013 h(-1) M(circle dot)) satellite halos fs greater than or similar to 0.1 at z greater than or similar to 3.
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