Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-05-03
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.318:280,2000
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 8 eps figures, submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03775.x
We have analyzed the distribution of void sizes in the two-dimensional slices of the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS). Fourteen volume-limited subsamples were extracted from the six slices to cover a large part of the survey and to test the robustness of the results against cosmic variance. Thirteen samples were randomly culled to produce homogeneously selected samples. We then studied the relationship between the cumulative area covered by voids and the void size as a property of the void hierarchy. We find that the distribution of void sizes scales with the mean galaxy separation, $\lambda$. In particular, we find that the size of voids covering half of the area is given by $D_{med} \approx \lambda + (12\pm3) \h^{-2}$Mpc. Next, by employing an environmental density threshold criterion to identify mock galaxies, we were able to extend this analysis to mock samples from dynamical $n$-body simulations of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) models. To reproduce the observed void statistics, overdensity thresholds of $\delta_{th} \approx 0 ... 1$ are necessary. We have compared standard (SCDM), open (OCDM), vacuum energy dominated ($\Lambda$CDM), and broken scale invariant CDM models (BCDM): we find that both the void coverage distribution and the two-point correlation function provide important and complementary information on the large-scale matter distribution. The dependence of the void statistics on the threshold criterion for the mock galaxy indentification shows that the galaxy biasing is more crucial for the void size distribution than are differences between the cosmological models.
Arbabi-Bidgoli Sepehr
Einasto Jaan
Mueller Volker
Tucker Dean
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