Using supercluster geometry as a cosmological probe

Abstract

We study the properties of superclusters detected in the Abell/ACO cluster catalogue. We identify the superclusters utilizing the `friend-of-friend' procedure, and then determine supercluster shapes by using the differential geometry approach. We find that the dominant supercluster morphological feature is filamentariness. We compare our Abell/ACO supercluster results with the corresponding ones generated from two different CDM cosmological models in order to investigate statistically which of the latter models best reproduces the observational results.

4 pages, 2 figures, to be puplished in the proceedings of the ''Sesto 2001-Tracing Cosmic Evolution with Galaxy Clusters'', Sesto 3-6 July 2001, Italy, eds, Stefano Borgani