Extension and estimation of correlations in cold dark matter models

DOI10.1051/0004-6361:20078099zbMATH Open1137.85330arXiv0710.0224OpenAlexW3098297696WikidataQ68670433 ScholiaQ68670433MaRDI QIDQ5457812FDOQ5457812

Authors: F. Sylos Labini, N. L. Vasilyev 

Publication date: 8 April 2008

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the large scale properties of standard cold dark matter cosmological models characterizing the main features of the power-spectrum, of the two-point correlation function and of the mass variance. Both the real-space statistics have a very well defined behavior on large enough scales, where their amplitudes become smaller than unity. The correlation function, in the range 0<xi(r)<1, is characterized by a typical length-scale r_c, at which xi(r_c)=0, which is fixed by the physics of the early universe: beyond this scale it becomes negative, going to zero with a tail proportional to -(r^{-4}). These anti-correlations represent thus an important observational challenge to verify models in real space. The same length scale r_c characterizes the behavior of the mass variance which decays, for r>r_c, as r^{-4}, the fastest decay for any mass distribution. The length-scale r_c defines the maximum extension of (positively correlated) structures in these models. These are the features expected for the dark matter field: galaxies, which represent a biased field, however may have differences with respect to these behaviors, which we analyze. We then discuss the detectability of these real space features by considering several estimators of the two-point correlation function. By making tests on numerical simulations we emphasize the important role of finite size effects which should always be controlled for careful measurements.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0224

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyobservations-cosmology: large-scale structure of universe-cosmology: miscellaneous

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical astronomy (85A35) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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