Angular Projections of Fractal Sets
Abstract
We discuss various questions which arise when one considers the central projection of three dimensional fractal sets (galaxy catalogs) onto the celestial globe. The issues are related to how fractal such projections look. First we show that the lacunarity in the projection can be arbitrarily small. Further characteristics of the projected set---in particular scaling---depend sensitively on how the apparent sizes of galaxies are taken into account. Finally, we discuss the influence of opacity of galaxies. Combining these ideas, seemingly contradictory statements about lacunarity and apparent projections can be reconciled.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9702116,
title = {Angular Projections of Fractal Sets},
author = {Ruth Durrer and Jean-Pierre Eckmann and Francesco Sylos Labini and Marco Montuori and Luciano Pietronero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9702116},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
10 pages, latex, 7 figures, available at http://www.phys.uniroma1.it/DOCS/PIL/pil.html. Final version accepted for publication in Europhyscs Letters. Due to size restrictions the original ps-files of figs. 3 to 6 could not be included. Instead we provide jpg-files. The ps-files are available directly from the authors or from the http site mentioned above