The galaxy counts-in-cells distribution from the SDSS

Details The galaxy counts-in-cells distribution from the SDSS The galaxy counts-in-cells distribution from the SDSS

2010-08-31

arxiv.org/abs/1009.0013v2

Astrophysical Journal (2011) 729 123

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Revised version with referee suggestions and corrected typos

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/729/2/123

We determine the galaxy counts-in-cells distribution from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) for 3D spherical cells in redshift space as well as for 2D projected cells. We find that cosmic variance in the SDSS causes the counts-in-cells distributions in different quadrants to differ from each other by up to 20%. We also find that within this cosmic variance, the overall galaxy counts-in-cells distribution agrees with both the gravitational quasi-equilibrium distribution and the negative binomial distribution. We also find that brighter galaxies are more strongly clustered than if they were randomly selected from a larger complete sample that includes galaxies of all luminosities. The results suggest that bright galaxies could be in dark matter haloes separated by less than ~10 Mpc/h.

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