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Environmental and Clustering Properties of BL Lac and FSRQ Blazars
  • Kyle Willett,
  • Lucy Fortson
Kyle Willett

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Lucy Fortson
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Abstract

We present results from a large-scale study of the megaparsec-scale environments of blazars, including BL Lac objects and flat-spectrum radio quasars. Using the catalog of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR10 catalog, we compute spatial covariance amplitudes for a sample of 757 blazars. The covariance amplitudes are analyzed to compute the relative levels of clustering for various blazar types. We also compare the clustering of blazars to FR I and FR II radio galaxies to explore possibility of a parent population in the context of a blazar sequence. Finally, we present preliminary results on the morphologies of galaxies located within 1 Mpc of blazars, with classifications supplied by Galaxy Zoo data.