Fractal analysis of the large-scale stellar mass distribution in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07419


A novel fractal analysis of the cosmic web structure is carried out, employing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, data release 7. We consider the large-scale stellar mass distribution, unlike other analyses, and determine its multifractal geometry, which is compared with the geometry of the cosmic web generated by cosmological N-body simulations. We find a good concordance, the common features being: (i) a minimum singularity strength equal to one, which corresponds to the edge of diverging energy and differs from the adhesion model prediction; (ii) a “supercluster set” of relatively high dimension where the mass concentrates; and (iii) a non-lacunar structure, like the one generated by the adhesion model.

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J. Gaite
Wed, 21 Mar 2018
41/61

Comments: 18 pages, 7 figures