Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-05-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
15 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
It is possible to visualize the Cosmic Web as an interconnected network of one dimensional filaments, two dimensional sheets and three dimensional volume filling structures which we refer to as clusters. We have used the Local Dimension $D$, which takes value $D=1,2,$ and 3 for filaments, sheets and clusters respectively, to analyse the Cosmic Web in a three dimensional volume limited galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Six. The analysis was carried out separately using three different ranges of length-scales, 0.5 to 5 $h^{-1} {\rm Mpc}$, 1 to 10 $h^{-1} {\rm Mpc}$ and 5 to 50 $h^{-1} {\rm Mpc}$. We find that there is a progressive increase in the $D$ values as we move to larger length-scales. At the smallest length-scales the galaxies predominantly reside in filaments and sheets. There is a shift from filaments to sheets and clusters at larger scales. Filaments are completely absent at the largest length-scales (5 to 50 $h^{-1} {\rm Mpc}$) . Considering the effect of the density environment on the Cosmic Web, we find that the filaments preferentially inhabit regions with a lower density environment as compared to sheets and filaments which prefer relatively higher density environments. A similar length-scale dependence and environment dependence was also found in a galaxy sample drawn from the Millennium Simulation which was analysed in exactly the same way as the actual data.
Bharadwaj Somnath
Pandey Biswajit
Sarkar Prakash
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