Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-01-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, latex, 1 postscript figure, also available at http://www.phys.uniroma1.it/DOCS/PIL/pil.html Accepted for publication
Scientific paper
10.1086/311930
We report our analysis of the properties of galaxy clustering for a new redshift sample of galaxies, the CfA2-South catalog, using statistical methods which do not rely on the assumption of homogeneity. We find that, up to ~ 20 Mpc/h, which is the largest scale to which correlation properties can be reliably inferred, the galaxy clustering is scale-invariant and characterized by a fractal dimension D=1.9 \pm 0.1. Further there is no statistical evidence for homogeneity at any of the larger scales (up to ~150 Mpc/h) probed more weakly by the catalog. These results means that characteristic ``correlation lengths'' for the clustering of galaxies derived using standards methods of analysis are not meaningful. Further the results are very consistent with those obtained from many other catalogs using the methods adopted here, which show the D =2 fractal continuing to beyond 100 Mpc/h. The incompleteness of the relevant data conjectured by various authors to give rise to such behaviour is therefore proved to have no significant effect (up to 20 Mpc/h) on the measured correlations.
Joyce Meridith
Montuori Marco
Sylos Labini Francesco
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