We propose to apply an object point process to automatically delineate filaments of the large-scale structure in redshift catalogues. We illustrate the feasibility of the idea on an example of the recent 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, describe the procedure, and characterise the results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0809.4358,
title = {A three dimensional object point process for detection of cosmic filaments},
author = {Radu S. Stoica and Vicent J. Martinez and Enn Saar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4358},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
21 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables. It makes use of the Latex class file statsoc.cls (included)