Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-12-12
ApJ 462 (1996) L13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters; 13 page AAS latex file including 1 table, 3 PS figures. Complete uuencoded compressed
Scientific paper
10.1086/310027
We present a new void search algorithm for automated detection of voids in three-dimensional redshift surveys. Based on a model in which the main features of the LSS of the Universe are voids and walls, we classify the galaxies into wall galaxies and field galaxies and we define voids as continuous volumes that are devoid of any wall galaxies. Field galaxies are allowed within the voids. The algorithm makes no assumptions regarding the shapes of the voids and the only constraint that is imposed is that the voids are always thicker than a preset limit, thus eliminating connections between adjacent voids through smal breaches in the walls. By appropriate scaling of the parameters with the selection function this algorithm can be used to analyze flux-limited surveys. We test the algorithm on Voronoi tessellations and apply it to the SSRS2 redshift survey to derive the spectrum of void sizes and other void properties. We find that the average diameter of a void is $37\pm 8 \h$ Mpc. We suggest the usage of this fully automated algorithm to derive a quantitative description of the voids, as another tool in describing the large scale structure of the Universe and for comparison with numerical simulations.
da Costa Luiz Nicolaci
El-Ad Hagai
Piran Tsvi
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