THE MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNIVERSE

A multi-scale morphological analysis of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) was performed. We adapted the Metric Space Technique to perform a space-scale morphological analysis by filtering the galaxy point distributions with a smoothing Gaussian function, thus giving quantitative structural information on a range of scale sizes. The analysis was performed on 2-D (a dozen slices of a volume of space containing many newly measured galaxies from the SDSS DR5 survey) and 3-D data. Using the MST, observational data was compared to galaxy samples taken from N-body simulations with current best estimates of cosmological parameters and from random catalogs. By using the maximal ranking method among MST output functions we also developed a way to quantify the overall similarity of the observed samples with the simulated samples. MST does uncover some new multi-scale morphological properties and appears to be a good tool to measure those properties by clearly distinguishing the samples.

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Yongfeng Wu received his B.S. (physics) from the Anhui Normal University (P.R.China) in 2001 and his Ph.D. (physics) from the University of Maine at orono (U.S.A) in 2010. He co-founded the Metric Space Technique and applied it into the astronomy research field. In 2010, He started his career in the field of ultrasonics in industry.