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Minkowski Functionals in Cosmology

J. Schmalzing, M. Kerscher, T. Buchert

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9508154

Abstract

Minkowski functionals provide a novel tool to characterize the large-scale galaxy distribution in the Universe. Here we give a brief tutorial on the basic features of these morphological measures and indicate their practical application for simulation data and galaxy redshift catalogues as examples.

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