Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-05-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 figures, uses iaus.cls, Invited talk at IAU Colloquium 195 "Outskirts of galaxy clusters: intense life in the subur
Scientific paper
10.1017/S1743921304000110
We report the {\em first} systematic study of the supercluster-void network in the $\Lambda$CDM concordance cosmology treating voids and superclusters on an equal footing. We study the dark matter density field in real space smoothed with the $L_s = 5$ \hm1 Mpc Gaussian window. Superclusters and voids are defined as individual members of over-dense and under-dense excursion sets respectively. We determine the morphological properties of the cosmic web at a large number of dark matter density levels by computing Minkowski functionals for every supercluster and void. At the adopted smoothing scale individual superclusters totally occupy no more than about 5% of the total volume and contain no more than 20% of mass if the largest supercluster is excluded. Likewise, individual voids totally occupy no more than 14% of volume and contain no more than 4% of mass if the largest void is excluded. The genus of individual superclusters can be $\sim 5$ while the genus of individual voids reaches $\sim 55$, implying significant amount of substructure in superclusters and especially in voids. Large voids are typically distinctly non-spherical.
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