Disentangling the Cosmic Web. I. Morphology of Isodensity Contours (original) (raw)

1999, The Astrophysical Journal

Morphology of the large-scale structure

Arxiv preprint astro-ph/0102197, 2001

Abstract: The Minkowski functionals are a mathematical tool to quantify morphological features of patterns. Some applications to the matter distribution in galaxy catalogues and N-body simulations are reviewed, with an emphasis on the effects of cosmic variance. The ...

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Scaling in Cosmic Structures

Scaling and Disordered Systems - International Workshop and Collection of Articles Honoring Professor Antonio Coniglio on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, 2002