Minkowski Functionals in Cosmology
Astrophysics
2008-02-03 v2
Abstract
Minkowski functionals provide a novel tool to characterize the large-scale galaxy distribution in the Universe. Here we give a brief tutorial on the basic features of these morphological measures and indicate their practical application for simulation data and galaxy redshift catalogues as examples.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9508154,
title = {Minkowski Functionals in Cosmology},
author = {J. Schmalzing and M. Kerscher and T. Buchert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9508154},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
9 pages, uuencoded gzipped ps-file, 300 kByte Proc. ``International School of Physics Enrico Fermi'', Course CXXXII: Dark Matter in the Universe, Varenna 1995, eds.: S. Bonometto, J. Primack, A. Provenzale, IOP, to appear; Corrected typing error in the last formula. Now it reads: \frac{M_{\mu-\nu}(D)}{M_0(D)} ^^^^ on the right side of the equation under the sum