# The Galaxy Counts-in-cells Distribution from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

@article{Yang2011TheGC,
title={The Galaxy Counts-in-cells Distribution from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey},
author={Abel Yang and William C. Saslaw},
journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
year={2011},
volume={729},
pages={123}
}
• Published 31 August 2010
• Physics
• The Astrophysical Journal
We determine the galaxy counts-in-cells distribution from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) for three-dimensional spherical cells in redshift space as well as for two-dimensional projected cells. We find that cosmic variance in the SDSS causes the counts-in-cells distributions in different quadrants to differ from each other by up to 20%. We also find that within this cosmic variance, the overall galaxy counts-in-cells distribution agrees with both the gravitational quasi-equilibrium… Expand

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