The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: the transition to large-scale cosmic homogeneity

@article{Scrimgeour2012TheWD,
title={The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: the transition to large-scale cosmic homogeneity},
author={Morag I. Scrimgeour and Tamara M. Davis and Chris Blake and J. Berian James and Gregory B. Poole and Lister Staveley-Smith and Sarah Brough and Matthew Colless and C. Contreras and Warrick J. Couch and Scott M. Croom and Darren J. Croton and Michael J Drinkwater and Karl G. Forster and David Gilbank and Michael G. Gladders and Karl Glazebrook and Ben Jelliffe and Russell J. Jurek and I. H. Li and Barry F. Madore and Christopher D. Martin and Kevin Pimbblet and Michael B. Pracy and Rob Sharp and Emily Wisnioski and David Woods and Ted K. Wyder and Howard K. C. Yee},
journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
year={2012},
volume={425},
pages={116-134}
}
We have made the largest volume measurement to date of the transition to large-scale homogeneity in the distribution of galaxies. We use the WiggleZ survey, a spectroscopic survey of over 200 000 blue galaxies in a cosmic volume of ∼1 h^(−3) Gpc^3. A new method of defining the ‘homogeneity scale' is presented, which is more robust than methods previously used in the literature, and which can be easily compared between different surveys. Due to the large cosmic depth of WiggleZ (up to z = 1), we…
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