your ID: 0004 
First Name: Michael 
Last Name: Strauss 
Affiliation: Princeton University 
Title: The clustering properties of quasars and the masses of the black holes 
Authors: Strauss et al. 
Topic: 1 
Session: oral 
Abstract: We have used the SDSS to explore the clustering properties and environments 
of z>3 quasars.  Assuming a relationship between black hole mass and halo mass, one 
expects luminous high-redshift quasars to sit on highly biased peaks of the density field, 
and therefore to be strongly clustered.  We will present a variety of tests of this idea, 
which should constrain models for quasar feeding and the relationship between black 
holes and their host haloes.