A Count Probability Cookbook: Spurious Effects and the Scaling Model

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1994-09-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9409052v1

Astrophys.J.Suppl. 96 (1996) 401-428

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

44 pages, uuencoded compressed postcript file, FERMILAB-Pub-94/229-A, accepted in ApJS

Scientific paper

10.1086/192125

We study the errors brought by finite volume effects and dilution effects on the practical determination of the count probability distribution function P_N(n,L), which is the probability of having N objects in a cell of volume L^3 for a set of average number density n. Dilution effects are particularly relevant to the so-called sparse sampling strategy. This work is mainly done in the framework of the scaling model (Balian \& Schaeffer 1989), which assumes that the Q-body correlation functions obey the scaling relation xi_Q(K r_1,..., K r_Q) = K^{-(Q-1) gamma} xi_N(r_1,..., r_Q). We use three synthetic samples as references to perform our analysis: a fractal generated by a Rayleigh-L\'evy random walk with 3.10^4 objects, a sample dominated by a spherical power-law cluster with 3.10^4 objects and a cold dark matter (CDM) universe involving 3.10^5 matter particles.

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