%0 Journal Article
%T The cluster environments of powerful radio-loud and radio-quiet AGN
%A R. J. McLure
%A J. S. Dunlop
%J Physics
%D 2000
%I arXiv
%R 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04087.x
%X The spatial clustering amplitude (B_{gq}) is determined for a sample of 44 powerful AGN at z~0.2. No significant difference is detected in the richness of the cluster environments of the radio-loud and radio-quiet sub-samples, both of which typically inhabit environments as rich as Abell Class ~0. Comparison with radio luminosity-matched samples from Hill & Lilly (1991) and Wold et al. (2000a) suggests that there is no epoch-dependent change in environment richness out to at least z>=0.5 for either radio galaxies or radio quasars. Comparison with the APM cluster survey shows that, contrary to current folklore, powerful AGN do not avoid rich clusters, but rather display a spread in cluster environment which is perfectly consistent with being drawn at random from the massive elliptical population. Finally, we argue that virtually all Abell class ~0 clusters contained an active galaxy during the epoch of peak quasar activity at z~2.5.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0007219v1