PERCOLATION ANALYSIS OF A WIENER RECONSTRUCTION OF THE IRAS-1.2-JY REDSHIFT CATALOG

We present percolation analyses of Wiener reconstructions of the IRAS 1.2 Jy redshift survey. There are 10 reconstructions of galaxy density fields in real space spanning the range beta = 0.1-1.0, where beta = Omega(0.6)/b, Omega is the present dimensionless density, and b is the bias factor. Our method uses the growth of the largest cluster statis tic to characterize the topology of a density held, where Gaussian ran domized versions of the reconstructions are used as standards for anal ysis. For the reconstruction volume of radius R approximate to 100 h(- 1) Mpc, percolation analysis reveals a slight ''meatball'' topology fo r the real space, galaxy distribution of the IRAS survey.