Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-10-20
Astrophys.J. 470 (1996) 160-171
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Submitted to ApJ. 17 pages, uuencoded compressed PostScript. 14 figures available as a compressed tar file from anonymous ftp
Scientific paper
10.1086/177857
Using two-dimensional numerical simulations of gravitational clustering, with initial power spectra of a power-law form with index n, we compare the properties of voids in real space to their properties in redshift space. Both the void probability function (VPF) and the underdense probability function (UPF) are enhanced in redshift space. The enhancement is greatest in the limit n=-2. The VPF and UPF treat voids statistically and assume that two-dimensional voids are circular; we present an algorithm which detects individual voids. Voids found by this algorithm are ellipses whose enclosed density of galaxies falls below a threshold density. When voids are identified using this algorithm, the mean void size and the maximum void size both increase in going from real space to redshift space. The increase is greatest in the limit n=-2. In redshift space, the principal axes of the largest voids in the n=2 and n=0 simulations show a statistically significant tendency (at the 95% confidence level) to be distributed anisotropically, relative to the line of sight from the origin to the void center.
Melott Adrian
Ryden Barbara
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