A Statistic for identifying cosmic string wakes and other sheet-like structure

Details A Statistic for identifying cosmic string wakes and other sheet-like structure A Statistic for identifying cosmic string wakes and other sheet-like structure

1995-05-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9505123v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.283:733,1996

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Latex file, 18 pages, 13 figures. One additional figure available by anoymous ftp to ftp://euclid.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk/Papers/94-5_3

Scientific paper

We describe an implementation of the structure functions of Babul \& Starkman, in order to quantify the ``sheet-like'' nature of a distribution of matter. We test this statistic on a toy model describing cosmic string wakes, and show that it does a better job than other statistics which have been proposed for distinguishing non-Gaussianity in the form of sheets. We conclude that the most favoured cosmic string model is unlikely to produce a significant increase in the sheet-like nature of the matter distribution beyond that which occurs in Gaussian models (with the same power spectrum) due to the formation of Zeldovich pancakes. Although the statistic was developed in the context of cosmic string wake formation, we expect it to be useful for comparing the observed galaxy distribution with a wide range of theoretical models with different power spectra.

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