Nonlinear evolution of density perturbations using approximate constancy of gravitational potential

Bagla, J. S. ; Padmanabhan, T. (1994) Nonlinear evolution of density perturbations using approximate constancy of gravitational potential Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 266 . pp. 227-237. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

During the evolution of density inhomogeneties in an Ω=1, matter dominated universe, the typical density contrast changes from δ ⋍ 10-4 to δ ⋍ 102. However, during the same time, the typical value of the gravitational potential generated by the perturbations changes only by a factor of order unity. This significant fact can be exploited to provide a new, powerful, approximation scheme for studying the formation of nonlinear structures in the universe. This scheme, discussed in this paper, evolves the initial perturbation using a Newtonian gravitational potential frozen in time. We carry out this procedure for different intial spectra and compare the results with the Zeldovich approximation and the frozen flow approximation (proposed by Mattarrese et al. recently). Our results are in far better agreement with the N-body simulations than the Zeldovich approximation. It also provides a dynamical explanation for the fact that pancakes remain thin during the evolution. While there is some superficial similarity between the frozen flow results and ours, they differ considerably in the velocity information. Actual shell crossing does occur in our approximation; also there is motion of particles along the pancakes leading to further clumping. These features are quite different from those in frozen flow model. We also discuss the evolution of the two-point correlation function in various approximations.

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Keywords:Galaxies; Formation-Large-scale structure of Universe
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