Clustering of Obscured and Unobscured Quasars in the Boötes Field: Placing Rapidly Growing Black Holes in the Cosmic Web

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 731; no. 2; pp. 117 - jQuery1323909361833='48'
• Main Authors: Hickox, Ryan C, Myers, Adam D, Brodwin, Mark, Alexander, David M, Forman, William R, Jones, Christine, Murray, Stephen S, Brown, Michael J. I, Cool, Richard J, Kochanek, Christopher S, Dey, Arjun, Jannuzi, Buell T, Eisenstein, Daniel, Assef, Roberto J, Eisenhardt, Peter R, Gorjian, Varoujan, Stern, Daniel, Le Floc'h, Emeric, Caldwell, Nelson, Goulding, Andrew D, Mullaney, James R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 20.04.2011

We present the first measurement of the spatial clustering of mid-infrared-selected obscured and unobscured quasars, using a sample in the redshift range 0.7 < z < 1.8 selected from the 9 deg2 Bootes multiwavelength survey. Recently, the Spitzer Space Telescope and X-ray observations have reve...