Constraints on the correlation between QSO luminosity and host halo mass from high-redshift quasar clustering
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v2
Abstract
Recent measurements of high-redshift QSO clustering from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey indicate that QSOs at z~4 have a bias b~14. We find that this extremely high clustering amplitude, combined with the corresponding space density, constrains the dispersion in the L-Mhalo relation to be less than 50% at 99% confidence for the most conservative case of a 100% duty cycle. This upper limit to the intrinsic dispersion provides as strong a constraint as current upper limits to the intrinsic dispersion in the local M_BH-sigma relation and the ratio of bolometric to Eddington luminosity of luminous QSOs.
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@article{arxiv.0711.4109,
title = {Constraints on the correlation between QSO luminosity and host halo mass from high-redshift quasar clustering},
author = {Martin White and Paul Martini and J. D. Cohn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.4109},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures. Minor revisions to address questions from referee. References updated