The Two--Point Correlation Function and the Size of Voids
Astrophysics
2015-06-24 v1
Abstract
Under the assumption of a void-filled Universe we investigate if the characteristic scale of voids can be determined from existing surveys. We use the Voronoi tessellation to create mock surveys and study the properties of the first zero-crossing of the two-point correlation function for various survey geometries. Our main conclusion is that the available data sets should be able to discriminate between 5000 \kms and 12000 \kms voids, if one of these scales actually characterizes the distribution of galaxies.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9503002,
title = {The Two--Point Correlation Function and the Size of Voids},
author = {Dalia S. Goldwirth and Luiz Nicolaci da Costa and Rien Van de Weygaert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9503002},
year = {2015}
}
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uuencoded compressed postscript file with 6 figures included. Accepted for publication in MNRAS