A structure in the early Universe at z ∼ 1.3 that exceeds the homogeneity scale of the R-W concordance cosmology

@article{Clowes2013ASI,
  title={A structure in the early Universe at z ∼ 1.3 that exceeds the homogeneity scale of the R-W concordance cosmology},
  author={R. Clowes and K. Harris and S. Raghunathan and L. Campusano and I. Soechting and M. Graham},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2013},
  volume={429},
  pages={2910-2916}
}
A Large Quasar Group (LQG) of particularly large size and high membership has been identified in the DR7QSO catalogue of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It has characteristic size (volume 1/3 ) � 500 Mpc (proper size, present epoch), longest dimension � 1240 Mpc, membership of 73 quasars, and mean redshift ¯ = 1.27. In terms of both size and membership it is the most extreme LQG found in the DR7QSO catalogue for the redshift range 1.0 6 z 6 1.8 of our current investigation. Its location on the… Expand
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