Cosmic homogeneity demonstrated with luminous red galaxies

Details Cosmic homogeneity demonstrated with luminous red galaxies Cosmic homogeneity demonstrated with luminous red galaxies

2004-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411197v1

Astrophys.J. 624 (2005) 54-58

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/429084

We test the homogeneity of the Universe at $z\sim 0.3$ with the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) spectroscopic sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. First, the mean number $N(R)$ of LRGs within completely surveyed LRG-centered spheres of comoving radius $R$ is shown to be proportional to $R^3$ at radii greater than $R\sim 70 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc}$. The test has the virtue that it does not rely on the assumption that the LRG sample has a finite mean density; its results show, however, that there \emph{is} such a mean density. Secondly, the survey sky area is divided into 10 disjoint solid angular regions and the fractional rms density variations of the LRG sample in the redshift range $0.2

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