Luminous superclusters: remnants from inflation

Details Luminous superclusters: remnants from inflation Luminous superclusters: remnants from inflation

2006-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605393v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 Figures, submitted for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20065617

We derive the luminosity and multiplicity functions of superclusters compiled for the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Data Release 4), and for three samples of simulated superclusters. We find for all supercluster samples Density Field (DF) clusters, which represent high-density peaks of the class of Abell clusters, and use median luminosities/masses of richness class 1 DF-clusters to calculate relative luminosity/mass functions. We show that the fraction of very luminous (massive) superclusters in real samples is more than tenfolds greater than in simulated samples. Superclusters are generated by large-scale density perturbations which evolve very slowly. The absence of very luminous superclusters in simulations can be explained either by non-proper treatment of large-scale perturbations, or by some yet unknown processes in the very early Universe.

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