Scaling Analysis of the Galaxy Distribution in the SSRS Catalog

Abstract

A detailed analysis of the galaxy distribution in the Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS) by means of the multifractal or scaling formalism is presented. It is shown that galaxies cluster in different ways according to their morphological type as well as their size. Ellipticals are more clustered than spirals, even at scales up to 15 h${}^{-1}$ Mpc, whereas no clear segregation between early and late spirals is found. It is also shown that smaller galaxies distribute more homogeneously than larger galaxies.

12 pages uuencoded compressed Postscript file with figures included (380 K). To appear in ApJ, December 1994. Also available by anonymous ftp from dust0.dur.ac.uk in /pub/preprints/campos_ssrs.ps