Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-03-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 3 Postscript figures (included) to appear in "Computational Astrophysics", Proc. 12th Kingston Conference, Halifax, O
Scientific paper
Observations indicate galaxies are distributed in a filament-dominated web-like structure; classic examples are the Coma and Perseus-Pisces superclusters. Numerical experiments at high and low redshift of viable structure formation theories also show filament-dominance; in particular, the gasdynamical simulations of Lyman alpha clouds at redshifts 2-6 that we concentrate on here. We understand why this is so in terms of rare events (peak patches) in the medium and the web pattern of filaments that bridge the gaps between the peaks along directions defined by their (oriented) tidal fields. We present an overview of these ideas and their practical application in crafting high resolution well-designed simulations. We show the utility of this by taking a highly filamentary subvolume found in a galactic-scale simulation, compressing its important large scale features onto a handful of numbers defining galactic-scale peak-patch constraints, which are then used to construct constrained initial conditions for a higher resolution simulation appropriate for study of the Lyman alpha forest.
Bond Richard J.
Wadsley James W.
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