Large-Scale Structure at the Turn of the Millennium

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1999-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9911115v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Invited review delivered at the XIX Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Paris, December 1998; 38 pages Latex with 16

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I review the current status of studies of the large-scale structure of the Universe using redshift surveys of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. I first summarise the advances we have made in our knowledge of the cosmography of the z<0.2 Universe during the last 25 years, as well as the status of the major surveys in progress. The question of how the "a priori" selection of some classes of objects "biases" the mapping of the underlying mass density field is discussed in some detail. I then emphasise the advantages of using clusters of galaxies selected in the X-ray band as tracers of large--scale structure, summarising the most recent results of the REFLEX survey, which is under completion. The strong potential of using X-ray clusters to study the evolution of structure to large redshifts is underlined. I then summarise some of the most recent statistical results on the clustering of galaxies and clusters, using the two-point correlation function xi(s) and the power spectrum P(k). In particular, I concentrate on the increased information available on the detailed shape of these functions on large scales, lambda~100/h Mpc. I argue that significant evidence is accumulating from different observations that P(k) has a well-defined and possibly narrow peak around k~0.05 h/Mpc. I conclude with a glimpse into the future of large-scale structure surveys at high redshifts, describing the features of the VIRMOS deep survey, which will soon start collecting redshifts with the ESO VLT for ~150,000 galaxies at a typical depth of z=1.

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