Large Scale Structure in the SDSS DR1 Galaxy Survey

Details Large Scale Structure in the SDSS DR1 Galaxy Survey Large Scale Structure in the SDSS DR1 Galaxy Survey

2003-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307233v1

Astron.Astrophys.418:7,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 15 figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20031780

The Large Scale Structure in the galaxy distribution is investigated using The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using the Minimal Spanning Tree technique we have extracted sets of filaments, of wall--like structures, of galaxy groups, and of rich clusters from this unique sample. The physical properties of these structures were then measured and compared with the statistical expectations based on the Zel'dovich' theory. The measured characteristics of galaxy walls were found to be consistent with those for a spatially flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model with $\Omega_m\approx$ 0.3 and $\Omega_\Lambda \approx$ 0.7, and for Gaussian initial perturbations with a Harrison -- Zel'dovich power spectrum. Furthermore, we found that the mass functions of groups and of unrelaxed structure elements generally fit well with the expectations from Zel'dovich' theory. We also note that both groups and rich clusters tend to prefer the environments of walls, which tend to be of higher density, rather than the environments of filaments, which tend to be of lower density.

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