Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1994-08-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
19 pages+ 21 fig, uuencoded compressed PostScript file, subnitted to ApJ, OUAST/94/52
Scientific paper
We present a detailed comparison of the predictions of perturbation theory for the averaged J-point correlation functions, $\xibar_J$, with the results of numerical simulations of gravitational clustering. We have carried out a systematic analysis of this method using ensembles of simulations with different numbers of particles, different box sizes and using different particle arrangements and clustering amplitudes in the initial conditions. We estimate $\xibar_J$, for $J=2-10$, from moments of counts-in-cells. We find significant non-linear effects in the variance, $J=2$, even at scales as large as $R \sim 30 \Mpc$. Perturbation theory gives remarkable agreement at large scales, where $\xibar_2 \simlt 1$, with the measured hierarchical amplitudes $S_J=\xibar_J/\xibar_2^{J-1}$. We have followed the evolution of $\xibar_J$ in time and find that for a change in the effective redshift of at least $\Delta z \simeq 2$ the amplitudes $S_J$ remain unchanged, despite the fact that the $\xibar_J$ have evolved by large factors, $\simeq 10^{J-1}$. We illustrate how these results can be applied to interpret the clustering in galaxy surveys and conclude that the observed hierarchical pattern in the APM is compatible with gravitational evolution in unbiased, initially Gaussian, models.
Baugh Carlton M.
Efstathiou George
Gaztanaga Enrique
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