PERCOLATION ANALYSIS OF A WIENER RECONSTRUCTION OF THE IRAS 1.2Jy REDSHIFT CATALOG

We present percolation analyses of Wiener Reconstructions of the IRAS 1.2Jy Redshift Survey. There are ten reconstructions of galaxy density in real space spanning the range β = 0.1 to 1.0, where β = Ω/b, Ω is the present dimensionless density and b is the bias factor. Our method uses the growth of the largest cluster statistic to characterize the topology of the density field, where Gaussian randomized versions of the reconstructions are used as standards for analysis. For the reconstruction volume of radius, R≈100hMpc, percolation analysis reveals a slight ‘meatball’ topology for the real space, galaxy distribution of the IRAS survey. Subject headings: cosmology-galaxies:clustering-methods:numerical