The Size and Shape of Local Voids

Details The Size and Shape of Local Voids The Size and Shape of Local Voids

2001-06-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106491v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.330:399,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

final version, Accepted in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05069.x

We study the size and shape of low density regions in the local universe which we identify in the smoothed density field of the PSCz flux limited IRAS galaxy catalogue. After quantifying the systematic biases that enter in the detection of voids using our data set and method, we identify, using a smoothing length of 5 $h^{-1}$ Mpc, 14 voids within 80 $h^{-1}$ Mpc and using a smoothing length of 10 $h^{-1}$ Mpc, 8 voids within 130 $h^{-1}$ Mpc. We study the void size distribution and morphologies and find that there is roughly an equal number of prolate and oblate-like spheroidal voids. We compare the measured PSCz void shape and size distributions with those expected in six different CDM models and find that only the size distribution can discriminate between models. The models preferred by the PSCz data are those with intermediate values of $\sigma_{8} (\simeq 0.83)$, independent of cosmology.

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