Analysing Large Scale Structure: I. Weighted Scaling Indices and Constrained Randomisation

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2002-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207140v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 337 (2002) 413

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05829.x

The method of constrained randomisation is applied to three-dimensional simulated galaxy distributions. With this technique we generate for a given data set surrogate data sets which have the same linear properties as the original data whereas higher order or nonlinear correlations are not preserved. The analysis of the original and surrogate data sets with measures, which are sensitive to nonlinearities, yields information about the existence of nonlinear correlations in the data. We demonstrate how to generate surrogate data sets from a given point distribution, which have the same linear properties (power spectrum) as well as the same density amplitude distribution. We propose weighted scaling indices as a nonlinear statistical measure to quantify local morphological elements in large scale structure. Using surrogates is is shown that the data sets with the same 2-point correlation functions have slightly different void probability functions and especially a different set of weighted scaling indices. Thus a refined analysis of the large scale structure becomes possible by calculating local scaling properties whereby the method of constrained randomisation yields a vital tool for testing the performance of statistical measures in terms of sensitivity to different topological features and discriminative power.

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