Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-02-16
ApJ 538 (2000) 11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
42 pages including 9 figure, ApJ 537 in press
Scientific paper
10.1086/309102
Smoothing operation to make continuous density field from observed point-like distribution of galaxies is crucially important for topological or morphological analysis of the large-scale structure, such as, the genus statistics or the area statistics (equivalently the level crossing statistics). It has been pointed out that the adaptive smoothing filters are more efficient tools to resolve cosmic structures than the traditional spatially fixed filters. We study weakly nonlinear effects caused by two representative adaptive methods often used in smoothed hydrodynamical particle (SPH) simulations. Using framework of second-order perturbation theory, we calculate the generalized skewness parameters for the adaptive methods in the case of initially power-law fluctuations. Then we apply the multidimensional Edgeworth expansion method and investigate weakly nonlinear evolution of the genus statistics and the area statistics. Isodensity contour surfaces are often parameterized by the volume fraction of the regions above a given density threshold. We also discuss this parameterization method in perturbative manner.
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