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Ilona Soechting
Oxford University
& Gemini South Visiting Astronomer
 

"Quasars and Galaxy Clusters - Where is the Connection?"
 

Quasars are luminous, readily accessible objects and as such very attractive lighthouses of the high redshift universe. Nevertheless, to become truly valuable cosmological probes their bias to the underlying galaxy distribution must be better established.  In my talk I will explore the possibilities and limitations of using quasars and some other AGN species as probes of galaxy clusters and large scale structure.