TOPOLOGY-ANALYSIS-OF-THE-SLOAN-DIGITAL-SKY-SURVEY：I-SCALE-AND-LUMINOSITY-DEPENDENCE.pdfVIP

Not to appear in Nonlearned J., 45. A Preprint typeset using L T X style emulateapj v. 6/22/04 E TOPOLOGY ANALYSIS OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: I. SCALE AND LUMINOSITY DEPENDENCE 1 1 2 3 1 4 Changbom Park , Yun-Young Choi , Michael S. Vogeley , J. Richard Gott III , Juhan Kim , Chiaki Hikage , 4 5 6 7 Takahiko Matsubara , Myeong-Gu Park , Yasushi Suto , David H. Weinberg and (For the SDSS collaboration) Not to appear in Nonlearned J., 45. ABSTRACT We measure the topology of volume-limited galaxy samples selected from a parent sample of 314,050 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which is now complete enough to describe the fully three-dimensional topology and its dependence on galaxy properties. We compare the observed genus statistic G(νf ) to predictions for a Gaussian random field and to the genus measured for mock surveys constructed from new large-volume simulations of the ΛCDM cosmology. In this analysis we carefully examine the dependence of the observed genus statistic on the Gaussian smoothing scale RG from 3.5 to 11 h−1Mpc and on the luminosity of galaxies over the range −22.50 Mr −18.5. The void multiplicity AV is less than unity at all smoothing scales. Because AV cannot become less than 1