The 2QDES Pilot : The luminosity and redshift dependence of quasar clustering

Abstract

We present a new redshift survey, the 2dF Quasar Dark Energy Survey pilot (2QDESp), which consists of $\approx 10000$ quasars from $\approx 150$ deg${}^2$ of the southern sky, based on VST-ATLAS imaging and 2dF/AAOmega spectroscopy. Combining our optical photometry with the WISE (W1,W2) bands we can select essentially contamination free quasar samples with $0.8<z<2.5$ and $g<20.5$. At fainter magnitudes, optical UVX selection is still required to reach our $g\approx 22.5$ limit. Using both these techniques we observed quasar redshifts at sky densities up to $90$ deg${}^{-2}$. By comparing 2QDESp with other surveys (SDSS, 2QZ and 2SLAQ) we find that quasar clustering is approximately luminosity independent, with results for all four surveys consistent with a correlation scale of $r_0=6.1\pm 0.1h^{-1}$Mpc, despite their decade range in luminosity. We find a significant redshift dependence of clustering, particularly when BOSS data with $r_0=7.3\pm 0.1h^{-1}$Mpc are included at $z\approx 2.4$. All quasars remain consistent with having a single host halo mass of $\approx 2\pm 1\times 10^{12}{h}^{-1}{M}_{\odot }$. This result implies that either quasars do not radiate at a fixed fraction of the Eddington luminosity or AGN black hole and dark matter halo masses are weakly correlated. No significant evidence is found to support fainter, X-ray selected quasars at low redshift having larger halo masses as predicted by the `hot halo' mode AGN model of Fanidakis et al. 2013. Finally, although the combined quasar sample reaches an effective volume as large as that of the original SDSS LRG sample, we do not detect the BAO feature in these data.

arXiv comment20 pages, 15 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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