Quantifying Filamentary Structure in the Universe

Details Quantifying Filamentary Structure in the Universe Quantifying Filamentary Structure in the Universe

May 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aas...182.1304b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 182nd AAS Meeting, #13.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, p.813

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Although filamentary structure is often present in the galaxy distribution, it is not clear whether gravitational clustering alone can produce it, or whether special initial conditions and non-gravitational physics are required. A visual examination of galaxy distributions, in both observations and numerical simulations, indicates that filaments tend to surround underdense regions. This tendency can be quantified using a filament finding algorithm such as the Minimal Spanning tree (MST). A heuristic approach connecting the size of a filament and its neighboring underdense region can be used to predict the distribution of filaments which result from gravitational clustering alone. For this purpose we use the gravitational quasi-equilibrium distribution theory to calculate probabilities for finding underdense regions. Numerical experiments confirm these calculations, and will be related to observations. SPB would like to acknowledge an SGER grant AST-9211435 from NSF; and VITA for its support and hospitality.

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