Quantitative Analysis of Voids in Percolating Structures in Two-Dimensional N-Body Simulations

1993/11/30 by P. M. Harrington, Harrington, P. M., Adrian L. Melott +4
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9311076

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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.

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