Dynamics of gravitational clustering
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Publication:4707244
DOI10.1051/0004-6361:20011675zbMath1032.83059arXivastro-ph/0107196OpenAlexW4301819625WikidataQ68509977 ScholiaQ68509977MaRDI QIDQ4707244
Publication date: 13 March 2004
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Using a non-perturbative method developed in a previous work (paper II), we derive the probability distribution $P(delta_R)$ of the density contrast within spherical cells in the quasi-linear regime for some non-Gaussian initial conditions. We describe three such models. The first one is a straightforward generalization of the Gaussian scenario. It can be seen as a phenomenological description of a density field where the tails of the linear density contrast distribution would be of the form $P_L(delta_L) sim e^{-|delta_L|^{-alpha}}$, where $alpha$ is no longer restricted to 2 (as in the Gaussian case). We derive exact results for $P(delta_R)$ in the quasi-linear limit. The second model is a physically motivated isocurvature CDM scenario. Our approach needs to be adapted to this specific case and in order to get convenient analytical results we introduce a simple approximation (which is not related to the gravitational dynamics but to the initial conditions). Then, we find a good agreement with the available results from numerical simulations for the pdf of the linear density contrast for $delta_{L,R} ga 0$. We can expect a similar accuracy for the non-linear pdf $P(delta_R)$. Finally, the third model corresponds to the small deviations from Gaussianity which arise in standard slow-roll inflation. We obtain exact results for the pdf of the density field in the quasi-linear limit, to first-order over the primordial deviations from Gaussianity.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107196
Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)
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