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# The 3D skeleton of the SDSS

@article{Sousbie2006The3S,
title={The 3D skeleton of the SDSS},
author={Thierry Sousbie and Christophe Pichon and Helene Courtois and St{\'e}phane Colombi and Dmitri D Novikov},
journal={arXiv: Astrophysics},
year={2006}
}
• Published 28 February 2006
• Physics
• arXiv: Astrophysics
The length of the three-dimensional filaments observed in the fourth public data-release of the SDSS is measured using the {\em local skeleton} method. It consists in defining the set of points where the gradient of the smoothed density field is extremal along its isocontours, with some additional constraints on local curvature to probe actual ridges in the galaxy distribution. A good fit to the mean filament length per unit volume, $\cal{L}$, in the SDSS survey is found to be \${\cal{L}}=(52500…
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