Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-04-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/303965
We reconsider the collapse of cosmic structures in an Einstein-de Sitter Universe, using the self similar initial conditions of Fillmore & Goldreich (1984). We first derive a new approximation to describe the dark matter dynamics in spherical geometry, that we refer to the "fluid approach". This method enables us to recover the self-similarity solutions of Fillmore & Goldreich for dark matter. We derive also new self-similarity solutions for the gas. We thus compare directly gas and dark matter dynamics, focusing on the differences due to their different dimensionalities in velocity space. This work may have interesting consequences for gas and dark matter distributions in large galaxy clusters, allowing to explain why the total mass profile is always steeper than the X-ray gas profile. We discuss also the shape of the dark matter density profile found in N-body simulations in terms of a change of dimensionality in the dark matter velocity space. The stable clustering hypothesis has been finally considered in the light of this analytical approach.
Alimi Jean--Michel
Chieze Jean Pierre
Teyssier Romain
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