The Galaxy and Mass N-Point Correlation Functions: a Blast from the Past

Abstract

Correlation functions and related statistics have been favorite measures of the distributions of extragalactic objects ever since people started analyzing the clustering of the galaxies in the 1930s. I review the evolving reasons for this choice, and comment on some of the present issues in the application and interpretation of these statistics, with particular attention to the question of how closely galaxies trace mass.

18 pages, conference contribution

Cited by in corpus (8)

• Anisotropic Fluid Cosmology: an Alternative to Dark Matter?
• Bayesian photometric redshifts of blended sources
• Fractal Approach to Large-Scale Galaxy Distribution
• Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Galaxies by Multiscale Methods
• The Non-Uniform Distribution of Galaxies from Data of the SDSS DR7 Survey
• Gaussian Mixture Models for Blended Photometric Redshifts
• Fast Mock Catalog Generation for Large Scale Structure Modeling
• Scaling the universe