Quantitative Analysis of Voids in Percolating Structures in Two-Dimensional N-Body Simulations
Astrophysics
2008-02-03 v2
Abstract
We present in this paper a quantitative method for defining void size in large-scale structure based on percolation threshold density. Beginning with two-dimensional gravitational clustering simulations smoothed to the threshold of nonlinearity, we perform percolation analysis to determine the large scale structure. The resulting objective definition of voids has a natural scaling property, is topologically interesting, and can be applied immediately to redshift surveys.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9311076,
title = {Quantitative Analysis of Voids in Percolating Structures in Two-Dimensional N-Body Simulations},
author = {P. M. Harrington and A. L. Melott and S. F. Shandarin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9311076},
year = {2008}
}
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5 pages of Tex plus 5 Postscript figures in compressed uuencoded tar file