RMxAA

Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica

ISSN: 3061-8649
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Keywords

galaxies: clusters: general
galaxies: statistics
large-scale structure of universe
methods: statistical
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

How to Cite

New Analytic Results for Poissonian and non-Poissonian Statistics of Cosmic Voids. (2012). Revista Mexicana De Astronomía Y Astrofísica, 48(2), 209-222. https://astronomia.unam.mx/journals/rmxaa/article/view/2012rmxaa..48..209z

Abstract

Stereology allows shifting from the 3D distribution of the volumes of Poissonian Voronoi Diagrams to their 2D cross-sections. The basic assumption is that the 3D statistics of the volumes of the voids in the local Universe has a distribution function of the gamma-type. The standard rule of conversion from 3D volumes to 2D circles, adopting the standard rules of stereology, produces a new probability density function of the radii which contains the Meijer G-function. A non-Poissonian distribution of volumes is also considered. The distribution of the 3D radii of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 is best fitted by a non-Poissonian distribution in volumes as given by the Kiang function with argument of about two.
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