Morphological Statistics of the Cosmic Web
Abstract
We report the {\em first} systematic study of the supercluster-void network in the CDM concordance cosmology treating voids and superclusters on an equal footing. We study the dark matter density field in real space smoothed with the \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 while the genus of individual voids reaches , 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