Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-11-10
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.325:803,2001
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04499.x
We create mock pencil-beam redshift surveys from very large cosmological $N$-body simulations of two Cold Dark Matter cosmogonies, an Einstein-de Sitter model ($\tau$CDM) and a flat model with $\Omega_0 =0.3$ and a cosmological constant ($\Lambda$CDM). We use these to assess the significance of the apparent periodicity discovered by Broadhurst et al. (1990). Simulation particles are tagged as `galaxies' so as to reproduce observed present-day correlations. They are then identified along the past light-cones of hypothetical observers to create mock catalogues with the geometry and the distance distribution of the Broadhurst et al. data. We produce 1936 (2625) quasi-independent catalogues from our $\tau$CDM ($\Lambda$CDM) simulation. A couple of large clumps in a catalogue can produce a high peak at low wavenumbers in the corresponding one-dimensional power spectrum, without any apparent large-scale periodicity in the original redshift histogram. Although the simulated redshift histograms frequently display regularly spaced clumps, the spacing of these clumps varies between catalogues and there is no `preferred' period over our many realisations. We find only a 0.72 (0.49) per cent chance that the highest peak in the power spectrum of a $\tau$CDM ($\Lambda$CDM) catalogue has a peak-to-noise ratio higher than that in the Broadhurst et al. data. None of the simulated catalogues with such high peaks shows coherently spaced clumps with a significance as high as that of the real data. We conclude that in CDM universes, the kind of regularity observed by Broadhurst et al. has a priori probability well below $10^{-3}$.
Colberg Jörg
Couchman H. M. P.
Efstathiou George
Evrard August E.
Frenk Carlos S.
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