21 results on '"Betancort-Rijo, Juan"'
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2. Several problems in the large scale structure of the universe
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Betancort-Rijo, Juan E.
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523.1 - Published
- 1988
3. GENERATION OFWARPS BY ACCRETION FLOWS
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Beckman, John E., López-corredoira, MartÍ n, Betancort-rijo, Juan, Castro-rodríguez, Nieves, and Cardwell, Andrew
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- 2003
4. Density distribution of the cosmological matter field.
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Klypin, Anatoly, Prada, Francisco, Betancort-Rijo, Juan, and Albareti, Franco D
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METAPHYSICAL cosmology ,GRAVITATIONAL lenses ,DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory) ,FLUCTUATIONS (Physics) ,DARK matter - Abstract
The one-point probability distribution function (PDF) of the matter density field in the universe is a fundamental property that plays an essential role in cosmology for estimates such as gravitational weak lensing, non-linear clustering, massive production of mock galaxy catalogues, and testing predictions of cosmological models. Here we make a comprehensive analysis of the dark matter PDF, using a suite of ∼7000 N -body simulations that covers a wide range of numerical and cosmological parameters. We find that the PDF has a simple shape: it declines with density as a power-law P ∝ ρ
−2 , which is exponentially suppressed on both small and large densities. The proposed double-exponential approximation provides an accurate fit to all our N -body results for small filtering scales R < 5 h−1 Mpc with rms density fluctuations σ > 1. In combination with the spherical infall model that works well for small fluctuations σ < 1, the PDF is now approximated with just few per cent errors over the range of 12 orders of magnitude – a remarkable example of precision cosmology. We find that at |${\sim } 5{-}10{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$| level the PDF explicitly depends on redshift (at fixed σ) and on cosmological density parameter Ωm . We test different existing analytical approximations and find that the often-used lognormal approximation is always 3–5 times less accurate than either the double-exponential approximation or the spherical infall model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2018
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5. Einstein's first gravitational field equation 101 years latter
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Betancort-Rijo, Juan and Ibarra, Felipe Jimenez
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Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics ,History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology - Abstract
We review and strengthen the arguments given by Einstein to derive his first gravitational field equation for static fields and show that, although it was ultimately rejected, it follows from General Relativity (GR) for negligible pressure. Using this equation and considerations folowing directly from the equivalence principle (EP), we show how Schwarzschild metric and other vacum metrics can be obtained immediately. With this results and some basic principles, we obtain the metric in the general spherically symmetric case and the corresponding hydrostatic equilibrium equation. For this metrics we obtain the motion equations in a simple and exact manner that clearly shows the three sources of difference (implied by various aspects of the EP) with respect to the Newtonian case and use them to study the classical tests of GR. We comment on the origin of the problems of Einstein first theory of gravity and discuss how, by removing it the theory could be made consistent and extended to include rotations, we also comments on various conceptual issues of GR as the origin of the gravitational effect of pressure.
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- 2014
6. Halo concentrations in the standard LCDM cosmology
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Prada, Francisco, Klypin, Anatoly A., Cuesta, Antonio J., Betancort-Rijo, Juan E., and Primack, Joel
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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
We study the concentration of dark matter halos and its evolution in N-body simulations of the standard LCDM cosmology. The results presented in this paper are based on 4 large N-body simulations with about 10 billion particles each: the Millennium-I and II, Bolshoi, and MultiDark simulations. The MultiDark (or BigBolshoi) simulation is introduced in this paper. This suite of simulations with high mass resolution over a large volume allows us to compute with unprecedented accuracy the concentration over a large range of scales (about six orders of magnitude in mass), which constitutes the state-of-the-art of our current knowledge on this basic property of dark matter halos in the LCDM cosmology. We find that there is consistency among the different simulation data sets. We confirm a novel feature for halo concentrations at high redshifts: a flattening and upturn with increasing mass. The concentration c(M,z) as a function of mass and the redshift and for different cosmological parameters shows a remarkably complex pattern. However, when expressed in terms of the linear rms fluctuation of the density field sigma(M,z), the halo concentration c(sigma) shows a nearly-universal simple U-shaped behaviour with a minimum at a well defined scale at sigma=0.71. Yet, some small dependences with redshift and cosmology still remain. At the high-mass end (sigma < 1) the median halo kinematic profiles show large signatures of infall and highly radial orbits. This c-sigma(M,z) relation can be accurately parametrized and provides an analytical model for the dependence of concentration on halo mass. When applied to galaxy clusters, our estimates of concentrations are substantially larger -- by a factor up to 1.5 -- than previous results from smaller simulations, and are in much better agreement with results of observations. (abridged), Submitted to MNRAS
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- 2011
7. An analytical framework to describe the orientation of dark matter halos and galaxies within the large-scale structure
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Betancort-Rijo, Juan E. and Trujillo, Ignacio
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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
We provide a set of general tools for studying the alignments of dark matter halos and galaxies with respect to the large scale structure. The statistics of the positioning of these objects is represented by a Probability Distribution Function (PDF) of their Euler angles. The PDF corresponding to halos located in the shells of the cosmic voids is inferred from previous results. This PDF is used to show how to recover the outcomes found for the alignments of the axes of these halos in simulations. We also explore the orientation of the angular momentum of the halos, both with respect to the halo axes and with respect to the large scale structure. We present an expression which describes well numerical results for the alignment of the angular momentum of the halo with respect to the halo axes for randomly chosen halos. We also propose a model that relates the orientation of the angular momentum with the halos axes accounting for the orientation of the halo axes with the large scale structure. This model is shown to recover accurately the observed PDF of the halo angular momentum with respect to the void radial direction. In addition, we give an expression for determining the degradation of the angular momentum intrinsic alignment when observational errors are accounted. This expression is also used to determine the departure of the observed value of the alignment from the initial expectation (as provided by the tidal torque theory) due to the rotation of the angular momentum of the halo with respect to the initial torque. For voids, we find that the strength of the alignment is reduced to half the original value. We discuss how to adapt the void results to other cosmic large scale structures (i.e. filaments, walls, etc)., 18 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS
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- 2009
8. The statistics of voids as a tool to constrain cosmological parameters: sigma_8 and Omega_m h
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Betancort-Rijo, Juan, Patiri, Santiago G., Prada, Francisco, and Romano, Antonio Enea
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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
We present a general analytical formalism to calculate accurately several statistics related to underdense regions in the Universe. The statistics are computed for dark matter halo and galaxy distributions both in real space and redshift space at any redshift. Using this formalism, we found that void statistics for galaxy distributions can be obtained, to a very good approximation, assuming galaxies to have the same clustering properties as halos above a certain mass. We deducted a relationship between this mass and that of halos with the same accumulated number density as the galaxies. We also found that the dependence of void statistics on redshift is small. For instance, the number of voids larger than 13 Mpc/h (defined to not contain galaxies brighter than M_r=-20.4 +5logh change less than 20% between z=1 and z=0. However, the dependence of void statistics on sigma_8 and Omega_m h is considerably larger, making them appropriate to develop tests to measure these parameters. We have shown how to efficiently construct several of these tests and discussed in detail the treatment of several observational effects. The formalism presented here along with the observed statistics extracted from current and future large galaxy redshift surveys will provide an independent measurement of the relevant cosmological parameters. Combining these measurements with those found using other methods will contribute to reduce their uncertainties., 17 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS
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- 2009
9. Statistics of Voids in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
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Patiri, Santiago G., Betancort-Rijo, Juan, Prada, Francisco, Klypin, Anatoly, and Gottl��ber, Stefan
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Astrophysics (astro-ph) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics - Abstract
We present a statistical analysis of voids in the 2dF galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS). In order to detect the voids, we have developed two robust algorithms. We define voids as non-overlapping maximal spheres empty of halos or galaxies with mass or luminosity above a given one. We search for voids in cosmological $N$-Body simulations to test the performance of our void finders. We obtain and analyze the void statistics for several volume-limited samples for the North Galactic Strip (NGP) and the South Galactic Strip (SGP) constructed from the 2dFGRS full data release. We find that the results obtained from the NGP and the SGP are statistically compatible. From the results of several statistical tests we conclude that voids are essentially uncorrelated, with at most a mild anticorrelation and that there is a dependence of the void number density on redshift at least at the 99.5% confidence level. We develop a technique to correct the distortion caused by the fact that we use the redshift as the radial coordinate. We calibrate this technique with mock catalogues and find that the correction might be of some relevance to carry out accurate inferences from void statistics. We study the statistics of the galaxies inside nine nearby voids. We find that galaxies in voids are not randomly distributed: they form structures like filaments. We also obtain the galaxy number density profile in voids. This profile follow a similar but steeper trend to that follow by halos in voids., 16 pages, 10 figures, replaced to match the published version in MNRAS
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- 2005
10. Some simple physical facts about the collapse of the Twin Towers
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Betancort-Rijo, Juan
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General Physics (physics.gen-ph) ,Physics - General Physics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) ,Physics - Popular Physics - Abstract
An analysis of the collapse of the Twin Towers is carried on with the aid of simple mechanical laws. The motion of the collapse front is calculated in terms of geometric and energetic quantities., 2 pages, no figures
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- 2001
11. Halo concentrations in the standard Λ cold dark matter cosmology.
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Prada, Francisco, Klypin, Anatoly A., Cuesta, Antonio J., Betancort-Rijo, Juan E., and Primack, Joel
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DARK matter ,GALACTIC halos ,METAPHYSICAL cosmology ,COMPUTER simulation ,STELLAR mass ,MANY-body problem ,REDSHIFT ,ASTRONOMICAL observations - Abstract
ABSTRACT We study the concentration of dark matter haloes and its evolution in N-body simulations of the standard Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmology. The results presented in this paper are based on four large N-body simulations with ∼10 billion particles each: the Millennium-I and -II, Bolshoi and MultiDark simulations. The MultiDark (or BigBolshoi) simulation is introduced in this paper. This suite of simulations with high mass resolution over a large volume allows us to compute with unprecedented accuracy the concentration over a large range of scales (about six orders of magnitude in mass), which constitutes the state of the art of our current knowledge on this basic property of dark matter haloes in the ΛCDM cosmology. We find that there is consistency among the different simulation data sets, despite the different codes, numerical algorithms and halo/subhalo finders used in our analysis. We confirm a novel feature for halo concentrations at high redshifts: a flattening and upturn with increasing mass. The concentration c( M, z) as a function of mass and the redshift and for different cosmological parameters shows a remarkably complex pattern. However, when expressed in terms of the linear rms fluctuation of the density field σ( M, z), the halo concentration c(σ) shows a nearly universal simple U-shaped behaviour with a minimum at a well-defined scale at σ∼ 0.71. Yet, some small dependences with redshift and cosmology still remain. At the high-mass end (σ < 1), the median halo kinematic profiles show large signatures of infall and highly radial orbits. This c-σ( M, z) relation can be accurately parametrized and provides an analytical model for the dependence of concentration on halo mass. When applied to galaxy clusters, our estimates of concentrations are substantially larger - by a factor up to 1.5 - than previous results from smaller simulations, and are in much better agreement with results of observations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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12. THE ORIENTATION OF DISK GALAXIES AROUND LARGE COSMIC VOIDS.
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Varela, Jesús, Betancort-Rijo, Juan, Trujillo, Ignacio, and Ricciardelli, Elena
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GALAXIES , *REDSHIFT , *DARK matter , *HALOS (Meteorology) , *ASTROPHYSICS - Abstract
Using a large sample of galaxies from the seventh data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR7), we have analyzed the alignment of disk galaxies around cosmic voids. We have constructed a complete sample of cosmic voids (devoid of galaxies brighter than Mr - 5 log h = -20.17) with radii larger than 10 h-1 Mpc up to redshift 0.12. Disk galaxies in shells around these voids have been used to look for particular alignments between the angular momentum of the galaxies and the radial direction of the voids. We find that disk galaxies around voids larger than ≳ 15 h-1 Mpc within distances not much larger than 5 h-1 Mpc from the surface of the voids present a significant tendency to have their angular momenta aligned with the void's radial direction with a significance ≳ 98.8% against the null hypothesis. The strength of this alignment is dependent on the void's radius and for voids with a radius ≲ 15 h-1 Mpc the distribution of the orientation of the galaxies is compatible with a random distribution. Finally, we find that this trend observed in the alignment of galaxies is similar to the one observed for the minor axis of dark matter halos around cosmic voids found in cosmological simulations, suggesting a possible link in the evolution of both components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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13. The statistics of voids as a tool to constrain cosmological parameters: σ 8 and Γ.
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Betancort-Rijo, Juan, Patiri, Santiago G., Prada, Francisco, and Romano, Antonio Enea
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METAPHYSICAL cosmology , *ASTRONOMY , *GALAXIES , *REDSHIFT , *DARK matter , *STATISTICS - Abstract
We present a general analytical formalism to calculate accurately several statistics related to underdense regions in the Universe. The statistics are computed for dark matter halo and galaxy distributions both in real space and redshift space at any redshift. Using this formalism, we found that void statistics for galaxy distributions can be obtained, to a very good approximation, assuming galaxies to have the same clustering properties as haloes above a certain mass. We deduced a relationship between this mass and that of haloes with the same accumulated number density as the galaxies. We also found that the dependence of void statistics on redshift is small. For instance, the number of voids larger than (defined to not contain galaxies brighter than ) change less than 20 per cent between and 0. However, the dependence of void statistics on σ8 and Γ is considerably larger, making them appropriate to develop tests to measure these parameters. We have shown how to efficiently construct several of these tests and discussed in detail the treatment of several observational effects. The formalism presented here along with the observed statistics extracted from current and future large galaxy redshift surveys will provide an independent measurement of the relevant cosmological parameters. Combining these measurements with those found using other methods will contribute to reduce their uncertainties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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14. A prescription for the conditional mass function of dark matter haloes.
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Rubiño-Martín, José Alberto, Betancort-Rijo, Juan, and Patiri, Santiago G.
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STELLAR initial mass function , *DARK matter , *SIMULATION methods & models , *DENSITY of stars , *DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory) , *METAPHYSICAL cosmology , *ASTRONOMY - Abstract
The unconditional mass function (UMF) of dark matter haloes has been determined accurately in the literature, showing excellent agreement with high-resolution numerical simulations. However, this is not the case for the conditional mass function (CMF). Here, we propose a simple analytical procedure to derive the CMF by rescaling the UMF to the constrained environment using the appropriate mean and variance of the density field at the constrained point. This method introduces two major modifications with respect to the standard rescaling procedure. First of all, rather than using in the scaling procedure the properties of the environment averaged over all the conditioning regions, we implement the rescaling locally. We show that for high masses this modification may lead to substantially different results. Secondly, we modify the (local) standard rescaling procedure in such a manner as to force normalization, in the sense that when one integrates the CMF over all possible values of the constraint multiplied by their corresponding probability distribution, the UMF is recovered. In practice, we do this by replacing in the standard procedure the value (the linear density contrast for collapse) by certain adjustable effective parameter . In order to test the method, we compare our prescription with the results obtained from numerical simulations in voids. We find that when our modified rescaling is applied locally to any existing numerical fit of the UMF, and the appropriate value for is chosen, the resulting CMF is, in all cases, in very good agreement with the numerical results. Based on these results, we finally present a very accurate analytical fit to the (accumulated) CMF obtained with our procedure, as a function of the parameters that describe the conditioning region (size and mean linear density contrast), the redshift and the relevant cosmological parameters (σ8 and Γ). This analytical fit may be useful for any theoretical treatment of the large-scale structure, and has been already used successfully in regard with the statistic of voids. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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15. Spin alignment of dark matter haloes in the shells of the largest voids.
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Cuesta, Antonio J., Betancort-Rijo, Juan E., Gottlöber, Stefan, Patiri, Santiago G., Yepes, Gustavo, and Prada, Francisco
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SPIRAL galaxies , *DARK matter , *ANGULAR momentum (Nuclear physics) , *ANGULAR momentum (Mechanics) , *COSMOLOGICAL distances - Abstract
Using the high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation MareNostrum universe we study the orientation of shape and angular momentum of galaxy-size dark matter haloes around large voids. We find that haloes located on the shells of the largest cosmic voids have angular momenta that tend to be preferentially perpendicular to the direction that joins the centre of the halo and the centre of the void. This alignment has been found in spiral galaxies around voids using galaxy redshift surveys. We measure for the first time the strength of this alignment, showing how it falls off with increasing distance to the centre of the void. We also confirm the correlation between the intensity of this alignment and the halo mass. The analysis of the orientation of the halo main axes confirms the results of previous works. Moreover, we find a similar alignment for the baryonic matter inside dark matter haloes, which is much stronger in their inner parts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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16. The properties of galaxies in voids.
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Patiri, Santiago G., Prada, Francisco, Holtzman, Jon, Klypin, Anatoly, and Betancort-Rijo, Juan
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GALAXY formation ,STAR formation ,DARK matter ,METAPHYSICAL cosmology ,ASTROPHYSICS - Abstract
We present a comparison of the properties of galaxies in the most underdense regions of the Universe, where the galaxy number density is less than 10 per cent of the mean density, with galaxies from more typical regions. We have compiled a sample of galaxies in 46 large nearby voids that were identified using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR4, which provides the largest coverage of the sky. We study the u− r colour distribution, morphology, specific star formation rate (SFR) and radial number density profiles for a total of 495 galaxies fainter than located inside the voids and compare these properties with a control sample of field galaxies. We show that there is an excess of blue galaxies inside the voids. However, inspecting the properties of blue and red galaxies separately, we find that galaxy properties such as colour distribution, bulge-to-total ratios and concentrations are remarkably similar between the void and overall sample. The void galaxies also show the same specific SFR at fixed colour as the control galaxies. We compare our results with the predictions of cosmological simulations of galaxy formation using the Millennium Run semi-analytic galaxy catalogue. We show that the properties of the simulated galaxies in large voids are in reasonably good agreement with those found in similar environments in the real Universe. To summarize, in spite of the fact that galaxies in voids live in the least dense large-scale environment, this environment makes very little impact on the properties of galaxies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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17. Statistics of voids in the two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey.
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Patiri, Santiago G., Betancort-Rijo, Juan E., Prada, Francisco, Klypin, Anatoly, and Gottlöber, Stefan
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REDSHIFT , *GALAXY clusters , *LARGE scale structure (Astronomy) , *COSMOLOGICAL distances , *METAPHYSICAL cosmology , *ASTRONOMICAL research - Abstract
We present a statistical analysis of voids in the two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). In order to detect the voids, we have developed two robust algorithms. We define voids as non-overlapping maximal spheres empty of haloes or galaxies with mass or luminosity above a given value. We search for voids in cosmological N-Body simulations to test the performance of our void finders. We obtain and analyse the void statistics for several volume-limited samples for the North Galactic Pole (NGP) and the South Galactic Pole (SGP) constructed from the 2dFGRS full data release. We find that the results obtained from the NGP and the SGP are statistically compatible. From the results of several statistical tests we conclude that voids are essentially uncorrelated, with at most a mild anticorrelation and that at the 99.5 per cent confidence level there is a dependence of the void number density on redshift. We develop a technique to correct the distortion caused by the fact that we use the redshift as the radial coordinate. We calibrate this technique with mock catalogues and find that the correction might be of some relevance to carry out accurate inferences from void statistics. We study the statistics of the galaxies inside nine nearby voids. We find that galaxies in voids are not randomly distributed: they form structures like filaments. We also obtain the galaxy number density profile in voids. This profile follow a similar but steeper trend to that followed by haloes in voids. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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18. The Halo Mass Function Redshift Dependence.
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Betancort-Rijo, Juan E. and Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.
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- 2006
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19. The Alignment of Dark Matter Halos with the Cosmic Web.
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Patiri, Santiago G., Cuesta, Antonio J., Prada, Francisco, Betancort-Rijo, Juan, and Klypin, Anatoly
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- 2006
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20. Understanding the Cosmic Mass Function High-Mass Behavior.
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Betancort-Rijo, Juan E. and Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.
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- 2006
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21. How Far Do They Go? The Outer Structure of Galactic Dark Matter Halos.
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Prada, Francisco, Klypin, Anatoly A., Simonneau, Eduardo, Betancort-Rijo, Juan, Patiri, Santiago, Gottlöber, Stefan, and Sanchez-Conde, Miguel A.
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- 2006
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