Measuring the geometry and topology of large-scale structure using SURFGEN: Methodology and preliminary results

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 343, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-46

  Sheth, Jatush V ^a   Sahni, Varun ^a   Shandarin, Sergei F ^b   Sathyaprakash, B S ^c  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology theory; Galaxies statistics; Large scale structure of universe; Methods numerical

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GALAXIES; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COSMOLOGY: THEORY; GALAXIES: STATISTICS; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE; LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE; METHOD: NUMERICAL; MINKOWSKI FUNCTIONALS; SUPERCLUSTERS; SURFACE MODELING; TRIANGULATED SURFACES; VOID NETWORKS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 0142054973     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06642.x     Document Type: Article

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