Coarse-grained description of cosmic structure from Szekeres models

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العنوان: Coarse-grained description of cosmic structure from Szekeres models
المؤلفون: Sussman, Roberto A., Gaspar, I. Delgado, Hidalgo, Juan Carlos
سنة النشر: 2015
المجموعة: Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
مصطلحات موضوعية: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
الوصف: We show that the full dynamical freedom of the well known Szekeres models allows for the description of elaborated 3--dimensional networks of cold dark matter structures (over--densities and/or density voids) undergoing "pancake" collapse. By reducing Einstein's field equations to a set of evolution equations, which themselves reduce in the linear limit to evolution equations for linear perturbations, we determine the dynamics of such structures, with the spatial comoving location of each structure uniquely specified by standard early Universe initial conditions. By means of a representative example we examine in detail the density contrast, the Hubble flow and peculiar velocities of structures that evolved, from linear initial data at the last scattering surface, to fully non--linear 10--20 Mpc. scale configurations today. To motivate further research, we provide a qualitative discussion on the connection of Szekeres models with linear perturbations and the pancake collapse of the Zeldovich approximation. This type of structure modelling provides a coarse grained -- but fully relativistic non--linear and non--perturbative -- description of evolving large scale cosmic structures before their virialisation, and as such it has an enormous potential for applications in cosmological research.
Comment: V3: Discussion of the expansion eigenvalues and of the Zeldovich approximation added. Figures modified accordingly. References updated. Version accepted for publication in JCAP
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/03/012
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02306
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1507.02306
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1088/1475-7516/2016/03/012