SCALING ANALYSIS OF THE GALAXY DISTRIBUTION IN THE SSRS CATALOG

Authors
CAMPOS A DOMINGUEZTENREIRO R YEPES G
Citation
A. Campos et al., SCALING ANALYSIS OF THE GALAXY DISTRIBUTION IN THE SSRS CATALOG, The Astrophysical journal, 436(2), 1994, pp. 565-575
Citations number
64
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
The Astrophysical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
0004637X
Volume
436
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Part
1
Pages
565 - 575
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-637X(1994)436:2<565:SAOTGD>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
A detailed analysis of the galaxy distribution in the Southern Sky Red shift Survey (SSRS) by means of the multifractal or scaling formalism is presented. It is shown that galaxies duster in different ways accor ding to their morphological type as well as their size. Elliptical gal axies are more clustered than spirals, even at scales up to 15 h(-1) M pc, whereas no clear segregation between early and late spirals is fou nd. It is also shown that smaller galaxies distribute more homogeneous ly than larger galaxies.