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

P. M. Harrington, A. L. Melott, S. F. Shandarin

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9311076

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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