Topology of structure in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: model testing

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2006-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610762v1

Astrophys.J.675:16-28,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 Apj pages, 7 figures High-resolution stereo graphic available at http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~dclayh/stereo50.eps

Scientific paper

10.1086/524292

We measure the three-dimensional topology of large-scale structure in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This allows the genus statistic to be measured with unprecedented statistical accuracy. The sample size is now sufficiently large to allow the topology to be an important tool for testing galaxy formation models. For comparison, we make mock SDSS samples using several state-of-the-art N-body simulations: the Millennium run of Springel et al. (2005)(10 billion particles), Kim & Park (2006) CDM models (1.1 billion particles), and Cen & Ostriker (2006) hydrodynamic code models (8.6 billion cell hydro mesh). Each of these simulations uses a different method for modeling galaxy formation. The SDSS data show a genus curve that is broadly characteristic of that produced by Gaussian random phase initial conditions. Thus the data strongly support the standard model of inflation where Gaussian random phase initial conditions are produced by random quantum fluctuations in the early universe. But on top of this general shape there are measurable differences produced by non-linear gravitational effects (cf. Matsubara 1994), and biasing connected with galaxy formation. The N-body simulations have been tuned to reproduce the power spectrum and multiplicity function but not topology, so topology is an acid test for these models. The data show a ``meatball'' shift (only partly due to the Sloan Great Wall of Galaxies; this shift also appears in a sub-sample not containing the Wall) which differs at the 2.5\sigma level from the results of the Millennium run and the Kim & Park dark halo models, even including the effects of cosmic variance.

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