Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-05-04
Astrophys.J.615:1,2004
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 3 figures; Minor Changes, Accepted to Apj
Scientific paper
10.1086/424476
It has recently been established that the filaments seen in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS) are statistically significant at scales as large as 70 to 80 Mpc/h in the $-3^{\circ}$ slice, and 50 to 70 Mpc/h in the five other LCRS slices. The ability to produce such filamentary features is an important test of any model for structure formation. We have tested the LCDM model with a featureless, scale invariant primordial power spectrum by quantitatively comparing the filamentarity in simulated LCRS slices with the actual data. The filamentarity in an unbiased LCDM model, we find, is less than the LCRS. Introducing a bias b=1.15, the model is in rough consistency with the data, though in two of the slices the filamentarity falls below the data at a low level of statistical significance. The filamentarity is very sensitive to the bias parameter and a high value b=1.5, which enhances filamentarity at small scales and suppresses it at large scales, is ruled out. A bump in the power spectrum at k~0.05 Mpc/h is found to have no noticeable effect on the filamentarity.
Bharadwaj Somnath
Pandey Biswajit
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