QUASAR CLUSTERING AND ITS COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATION

1989 ◽  
Vol 04 (14) ◽  
pp. 3477-3502 ◽  
Author(s):  
LI ZHI FANG

The clusterings of quasars and absorption line clouds have been analyzed from the viewpoint of the structure formation of the universe. It was found that the features of quasar clustering are quite different from those of galaxies. These results have already given several meaningful constraints on the structure formation, as follows: (a) quasar clustering is much weaker than in galaxies; (b) large scale structures, such as superclusters, should probably be formed after the epoch z~2; (c) the amplitude of the total density inhomogeneity seems to be less than that of galaxy distribution by at least a factor of 3–5 (in a Ω=1 universe); (d) Ly-α absorption clouds may be formed by different processes of clustering from that of glaxies.

1994 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 241-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
VOLKER MÜLLER

It is shown that fourth-order-gravity with a scalar field leads naturally to double inflation models. If both inflationary episodes are disconnected by a stage of power law expansion, we get a primordial inflation spectrum with a break in the power possibly relevant for the formation of large scale structures in the universe.


Author(s):  
Louise Rebecca ◽  
C Sivaram ◽  
Arun Kenath

Although the presence of dark energy is well established from various observations, its true nature is still not well understood. The cosmological constant term seems to be the preferred candidate. In earlier work we had a constant cosmological constant term to limit the sizes of large-scale structures at lower redshifts. In this work, we extend this to large scale structures at higher redshifts. Here we invoke a time varying cosmological constant to set constraints on sizes of galaxies at high redshifts and see that they are consistent with their observed sizes. The time-varying cosmological constant also provides a possible solution to the puzzle of structure formation of large disk galaxies (like the Wolfe disk) observed at very early stages of the Universe. Future observations of galaxies at even higher redshifts could support our approach.


1986 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
LI-ZHI FANG ◽  
YAO-QUAN CHU ◽  
XING-FEN ZHU

An upper limit to the amplitude of the overall density fluctuation has been found by means of the gravitational lensing effect of the density inhomogeneity on luminosities of quasars with larger redshifts. The observed differences of luminosities of quasars located at different directions are partially given by the lensing effect; therefore, a useful upper limit to the inhomogeneity can be derived if the luminosity distribution of quasars is uniform enough. We obtain this for the case of Ω=1 universe. The overall matter seems to be less clustered than the luminous matter by a factor of three. It may not be favoured for the biased dark matter scenario for the formation of large scale structures, in the universe.


1987 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 335-348
Author(s):  
Neta A. Bahcall

The evidence for the existence of very large scale structures, ∼ 100h−1Mpc in size, as derived from the spatial distribution of clusters of galaxies is summarized. Detection of a ∼ 2000 kms−1 elongation in the redshift direction in the distribution of the clusters is also described. Possible causes of the effect are peculiar velocities of clusters on scales of 10–100h−1Mpc and geometrical elongation of superclusters. If the effect is entirely due to the peculiar velocities of clusters, then superclusters have masses of order 1016.5M⊙ and may contain a larger amount of dark matter than previously anticipated.


2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (S308) ◽  
pp. 211-212
Author(s):  
Gaël Foëx ◽  
Veronica Motta ◽  
Marceau Limousin ◽  
Tomas Verdugo ◽  
Fabio Gastaldello

AbstractWe present the analysis of a sample of strong-lensing galaxy group candidates. Our main findings are: confirmation of group-scale systems, complex light distributions, presence of large-scale structures in their surroundings, and evidence of a strong-lensing bias in the mass-concentration relation. We also report the detection of the first 'Bullet group'.


1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 75-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Pustil'nik ◽  
A. V. Ugryumov ◽  
V. A. Lipovetsky

2002 ◽  
Vol 168-169 ◽  
pp. 404-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.M Ramos ◽  
C.A Wuensche ◽  
A.L.B Ribeiro ◽  
R.R Rosa

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (15) ◽  
pp. 1848005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Heymans ◽  
Gong-Bo Zhao

Observations of the evolution of large-scale structures in the Universe provides unique tools to confront Einstein’s theory of General Relativity on cosmological scales. We review weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering studies, discussing how these can be used in combination in order to constrain a range of different modified gravity theories. We argue that in order to maximise the future information gain from these probes, theoretical effort will be required in order to model the impact of beyond-Einstein gravity in the nonlinear regime of structure formation.


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