The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: voids and hierarchical scaling models

Details The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: voids and hierarchical scaling models The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: voids and hierarchical scaling models

2004-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401406v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.352:828,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 6 figures. Dark matter comparison added. Accepted MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07968.x

We measure the redshift space reduced void probability function (VPF) for 2dFGRS volume limited galaxy samples covering the absolute magnitude range M_bJ-5logh=-18 to -22. Theoretically, the VPF connects the distribution of voids to the moments of galaxy clustering of all orders, and can be used to discriminate clustering models in the weakly non-linear regime. The reduced VPF measured from the 2dFGRS is in excellent agreement with the paradigm of hierarchical scaling of the galaxy clustering moments. The accuracy of our measurement is such that we can rule out, at a very high significance, popular models for galaxy clustering, including the lognormal distribution. We demonstrate that the negative binomial model gives a very good approximation to the 2dFGRS data over a wide range of scales, out to at least 20h-1Mpc. Conversely, the reduced VPF for dark matter in a LambdaCDM universe does appear to be lognormal on small scales but deviates significantly beyond \approx 4h-1Mpc. We find little dependence of the 2dFGRS reduced VPF on galaxy luminosity. Our results hold independently in both the north and south Galactic pole survey regions.

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