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Morphological Statistics of the Cosmic Web

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We report the {\em first} systematic study of the supercluster-void network in the Λ\LambdaCDM concordance cosmology treating voids and superclusters on an equal footing. We study the dark matter density field in real space smoothed with the Ls=5L_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 5\sim 5 while the genus of individual voids reaches 55\sim 55, implying significant amount of substructure in superclusters and especially in voids. Large voids are typically distinctly non-spherical.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0405303,
  title  = {Morphological Statistics of the Cosmic Web},
  author = {Sergei F. Shandarin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0405303},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, uses iaus.cls, Invited talk at IAU Colloquium 195 "Outskirts of galaxy clusters: intense life in the suburbs", Torino, Italy, March 12-16, 2004

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