Geometry and Morphology of the Cosmic Web: Analyzing Spatial Patterns in the Universe

Details Geometry and Morphology of the Cosmic Web: Analyzing Spatial Patterns in the Universe Geometry and Morphology of the Cosmic Web: Analyzing Spatial Patterns in the Universe

2009-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3448v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

28 pages, 16 figures, invited review ISVD09 (International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams and Engineering), Copenhagen, Denmark

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We review the analysis of the Cosmic Web by means of an extensive toolset based on the use of Delaunay and Voronoi tessellations. The Cosmic Web is the salient and pervasive foamlike pattern in which matter has organized itself on scales of a few up to more than a hundred Megaparsec. First, we describe the Delaunay Tessellation Field Estimator (DTFE). The DTFE formalism is shown to recover the hierarchical nature and the anisotropic morphology of the cosmic matter distribution. The Multiscale Morphology Filter (MMF) uses the DTFE density field to extract the diverse morphological elements - filaments, sheets and clusters - on the basis of a ScaleSpace analysis which searches for these morphologies over a range of scales. Subsequently, we discuss the Watershed Voidfinder (WVF), which invokes the discrete watershed transform to identify voids in the cosmic matter distribution. The WVF is able to determine the location, size and shape of the voids. The watershed transform is also a key element in the SpineWeb analysis of the cosmic matter distribution. It allows the determination of the filamentary spine and connected walls in the cosmic matter density field through the identification of the singularities and corresponding separatrices. Finally, we describe the concept of Alphashapes for assessing the topology of the cosmic matter distribution.

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