Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-08-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
30 pages, including 8 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/306460
We investigate the influence of non equilibrium thermodynamics on cosmological structure formation. In this paper, we consider the collapse of planar perturbations usually called "Zel'dovich pancakes". We have developed for that purpose a new two fluids (gas and dark matter) hydrodynamical code, with three different thermodynamical species: electrons, ions and neutral particles (T_e\ne T_i \ne T_n). We describe in details the complex structure of accretion shock waves. We include several relevant processes for a low density, high temperature, collisional plasma such as non-equilibrium chemical reactions, cooling, shock heating, thermal energy equipartition between electrons, ions and neutral particles and electronic conduction. We find two different regions in the pancake structure: a thermal precursor ahead of the compression front and an equipartition wave after the compression front where electrons and ions temperatures differ significantly. This complex structure may have two interesting consequences: pre-heating of unshocked regions in the vicinity of massive X-ray clusters and ions and electrons temperatures differences in the outer regions of X-rays clusters.
Alimi Jean--Michel
Chieze Jean Pierre
Teyssier Romain
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