Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-11-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 10 figures, to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20010010
A new method for analyzing point patterns produced by the evolution of gravitational clustering is presented. The method is taken from the study of molecular liquids, where it has been introduced for making a statistical description of anisotropic distributions. The statistical approach is based on the spherical harmonic expansion of angular correlations. A general introduction to the method is given; a theoretical analysis shows that it is partially connected with previous harmonic analyses applied to galaxy catalogs. The effectiveness of the statistical analysis in quantifying clustering morphology is illustrated by applying the statistical estimators to point distributions produced by an ensemble of cosmological $N-$ body simulations with a CDM spectrum. The results demonstrate that the statistical method is able to detect anisotropies in non-random patterns, with different scales being probed according to the expansion coefficients.
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