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Radio Galaxies and Quasars as Cosmological Probes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Ashok K. Singal
Ashok K. Singal*
Affiliation:
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands, e-mail: singal@nfra.nl

Abstract

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Various techniques and methods that have been developed for using extragalactic radio sources as cosmological probes of the universe are listed. The discussion is mainly confined to the cosmological tests employing extended radio sizes of powerful radio galaxies and quasars as standard metric rods (in a statistical sense) to figure out the geometry of the universe. Some comments are made on the recent use of the milliarcsec scale sizes of compact radio sources for angular size–redshift tests. It is further pointed out that the estimates of clustering for quasars selected at centimetre wavelengths could be seriously affected by the relativistic beaming.

Type
Part I: Invited Reviews
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 168: Examining the Big Bang and the Diffuse Background Radiations , 1996 , pp. 71 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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