Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-12-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
latex, 16 pages, 11 postscript figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03255.x
Counts-in-cells are measured in the $\tau$CDM Virgo Hubble Volume simulation. This large N-body experiment has 10^9 particles in a cubic box of size 2000 h^{-1} Mpc. The unprecedented combination of size and resolution allows for the first time a realistic numerical analysis of the cosmic errors and cosmic correlations of statistics related to counts-in-cells measurements, such as the probability distribution function P_N itself, its factorial moments F_k and the related cumulants $\xiav$ and S_N's. These statistics are extracted from the whole simulation cube, as well as from 4096 sub-cubes of size 125 h^{-1}Mpc, each representing a virtual random realization of the local universe. The measurements and their scatter over the sub-volumes are compared to the theoretical predictions of Colombi, Bouchet & Schaeffer (1995) for P_0, and of Szapudi & Colombi (1996, SC) and Szapudi, Colombi & Bernardeau (1999a, SCB) for the factorial moments and the cumulants. The general behavior of experimental variance and cross-correlations as functions of scale and order is well described by theoretical predictions, with a few percent accuracy in the weakly non-linear regime for the cosmic error on factorial moments. (... more in paper >...)
Colberg Jörg
Colombi Stephane
Jenkins Adrian
Szapudi István
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