1996/06/14 by István Szapudi, Avery Meiksin, Avery Meiksen +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/178123
published as Astrophys.J. 473 (1996) 15 · uuencode gzipped tarred tex-files (paper+table) and 5 postscript figures, accepted for ApJ; to be appear in ApJ main journal
arxiv created 1996/06/14 · openalex publication_date 1996/12/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Counts in cells are used to analyse the higher order properties of the statistics of the EDSGC survey. The probability distribution is obtained from an equal area projection source catalog with infinite oversampling over the range 0.015^∘-2^∘. The factorial moments of the resulting distribution and the sN's characterizing the non-Gaussian nature of the distribution are extracted. These results are compared to previous results from the APM survey, and to theoretical results from perturbation theory. The deprojected 3D values corresponding to the sN's are also determined. We find that the 3D values match the scaling relation for strongly nonlinear clustering found in N-body simulations remarkably well, suggesting that the galaxies are reliable tracers of the underlying mass distribution.