Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-10-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages + 2 tables + 4 figures are available from http://charon.nmsu.edu/ftp/aklypin/LCDM
Scientific paper
Cosmological models with a positive cosmological constant and $\Omega_0<1$ have a number of attractive features. A larger Hubble constant, which can be compatible with the recent HST estimate, and a large fraction of baryon density in galaxy clusters make them current favorites. Early galaxy formation also is considered as a welcome feature of these models But early galaxy formation implies that fluctuations on few megaparsec scales spent more time in the nonlinearregime, as compared with standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) or Cold+Hot Dark Matter models. This results in excessive clustering on small scales. We show that a typical LCDM model with $H_0=70$ km/s/Mpc, $\Omega_0=0.3$ normalized to COBE on large scales and compatible with the number-density of galaxy clusters, predicts a power spectrum of galaxy clustering in real space which is too high: {\it at least} twice larger than CfA estimates (Park \etal 1994) and 3 times larger than APM estimates (Baugh \& Efstathiou 1994) for wavenumbers $k=(0.4-1)h/{\rm Mpc}$. This conclusion holds if we assume either that galaxies trace the dark matter ($\sigma_8\approx 1.1$ for this model) or just that a region with higher density produces more galaxies than a region with lower density. The only way to reconcile the model with the observed power spectrum is to assume that regions with high dark matter density produce fewer galaxies than regions with low density. Theoretically this is possible, but it seems very unlikely: X-ray emission from groups and clusters indicates that places with a large density of dark matter produce a large number of galaxies. Since it follows that the low- $\Omega$ LCDM models are in serious trouble, we discuss which LCDM models have the best hope of surviving the confrontation with available observational data.
Holtzman Jon
Klypin Anatoly
Primack Joel
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