Probing Dark Matter Halos of High-redshift Quasars via Wide-Field Clustering

arXiv:2602.02778 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-02-02 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-02-02

Updated: 2026-09-01

Code: https://github.com/manodeep/Corrfunc

Terminology

• Clustering — 44× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• National Science Foundation — 3× in this paper
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument — 2× in this paper
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• External Validation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Matter Power Spectrum — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Physics — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Redshift-Space Distortions (RSD) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer — 1× in this paper

Sources

• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
• The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design
• The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design
• The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
• Quasar clustering and duty cycle measurements at $0\leq z\leq 4$ with the Gaia-unWISE Catalog
• Clustering of z~6.6 Quasars and [O III] Emitters Constrains Host Halo Masses and Duty Cycles in 25 ASPIRE Fields
• Angular clustering and bias of photometric quasars in the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 4
• The DESI Experiment, a whitepaper for Snowmass 2013
• Extreme Galaxy-scale Outflows Are Frequent among Luminous Early Quasars
• A first look at quasar-galaxy clustering at $z\simeq7.3$
• ASPIRE: The Environments and Dark Matter Halos of Luminous Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization
• Reduced Incidence of Little Red Dots at z < 3 from Number Density and Halo Mass Evolution

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