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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2011

Morphological properties of superclusters of galaxies

M. V. Costa-Duarte
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L. Sodré
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We studied superclusters of galaxies in a volume-limited sample extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 and from mock catalogues based on a semi-analytical model of galaxy evolution in the Millennium Simulation. A density field method was applied to a sample of galaxies brighter than Mr=-21+5 log h100 to identify superclusters, taking into account selection and boundary effects. In order to evaluate the influence of the threshold density, we have chosen two thresholds: the first maximizes the number of objects (D1) and the second constrains the maximum supercluster size to ∼120 h-1 Mpc (D2). We have performed a morphological analysis, using Minkowski Functionals, based on a parameter, which increases monotonically from filaments to pancakes. An anticorrelation was found between supercluster richness (and total luminosity or size) and the morphological parameter, indicating that filamentary structures tend to be richer, larger and more luminous than pancakes in both observed and mock catalogues. We have also used the mock samples to compare supercluster morphologies identified in position and velocity spaces, concluding that our morphological classification is not biased by the peculiar velocities. Monte Carlo simulations designed to investigate the reliability of our results with respect to random fluctuations show that these results are robust. Our analysis indicates that filaments and pancakes present different luminosity and size distributions.
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insu-03646029 , version 1 (21-04-2022)

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M. V. Costa-Duarte, L. Sodré, F. Durret. Morphological properties of superclusters of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011, 411, pp.1716-1726. ⟨10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17803.x⟩. ⟨insu-03646029⟩
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