Exploring the Cosmic Web in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Seven using the Local Dimension
Prakash Sarkar, Biswajit Pandey, Somnath Bharadwaj

TL;DR
This study analyzes the Cosmic Web's structure using the Local Dimension in SDSS DR7 data, revealing scale-dependent transitions from filaments to sheets and clusters, with environmental influences on galaxy distribution.
Contribution
It introduces a scale-dependent analysis of the Cosmic Web using the Local Dimension, comparing observational data with simulations to understand structural transitions.
Findings
Filaments dominate at small scales, while sheets and clusters become prevalent at larger scales.
Filaments are found in lower-density regions compared to sheets and clusters.
The scale and environment dependence observed in SDSS data are also confirmed in Millennium Simulation data.
Abstract
It is possible to visualize the Cosmic Web as an interconnected network of one-dimensional filaments, two-dimensional sheets and three-dimensional volume-filling structures which we refer to as clusters. We have used the Local Dimension D, which takes values D = 1, 2 and 3 for filaments, sheets and clusters, respectively, to analyse the Cosmic Web in a three-dimensional volume-limited galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. The analysis was carried out separately using three different ranges of length-scales: 0.5-5, 1-10 and 5-50 . We find that there is a progressive increase in the D values as we move to larger length-scales. At the smallest length-scale, the galaxies predominantly reside in filaments and sheets. There is a shift from filaments to sheets and clusters at larger scales. Filaments are completely absent at the largest length-scale…
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