Topology and Geometry of the CfA2 Redshift Survey

Details Topology and Geometry of the CfA2 Redshift Survey Topology and Geometry of the CfA2 Redshift Survey

1999-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9910228v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 312 (2000) 638-648

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages including 10 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03154.x

We analyse the redshift space topology and geometry of the nearby Universe by computing the Minkowski functionals of the Updated Zwicky Catalogue (UZC). The UZC contains the redshifts of almost 20,000 galaxies, is 96% complete to the limiting magnitude m_Zw=15.5 and includes the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) Redshift Survey (CfA2). From the UZC we can extract volume limited samples reaching a depth of 70 hMpc before sparse sampling dominates. We quantify the shape of the large-scale galaxy distribution by deriving measures of planarity and filamentarity from the Minkowski functionals. The nearby Universe shows a large degree of planarity and a small degree of filamentarity. This quantifies the sheet-like structure of the Great Wall which dominates the northern region (CfA2N) of the UZC. We compare these results with redshift space mock catalogues constructed from high resolution N-body simulations of two Cold Dark Matter models with either a decaying massive neutrino (tauCDM) or a non-zero cosmological constant (LambdaCDM). We use semi-analytic modelling to form and evolve galaxies in these dark matter-only simulations. We are thus able, for the first time, to compile redshift space mock catalogues which contain galaxies, along with their observable properties, rather than dark matter particles alone. In both models the large scale galaxy distribution is less coherent than the observed distribution, especially with regard to the large degree of planarity of the real survey. However, given the small volume of the region studied, this disagreement can still be a result of cosmic variance.

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