Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-01-29
Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.20:1,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
22 pages, 12 figures, replaced with major revision to previous submission, PASA in press
Scientific paper
10.1071/AS02039
We present the study of ten random realizations of a density field characterized by a cosmological power spectrum P(k) at redshift z=50. The reliability of such initial conditions for n-body simulations are tested with respect to their correlation properties. The power spectrum P(k), and the mass variance sigmaM(r) do not show detectable deviations from the desired behavior in the intermediate range of scales between the mean interparticle distance and the simulation volume. The estimator for xi(r) is too noisy to detect any reliable signal at the initial redshift z=50. The particle distributions are then evolved forward until z=0. This allows us to explore the cosmic variance stemming from the random nature of the initial conditions. With cosmic variance we mean the fact that a simulation represents a single realization of the stochastic initial conditions whereas the real Universe contains many realizations of regions of the size of the box; this problem affects most importantly the scales at about the fundamental mode. We study morphological descriptors of the matter distribution such as the genus, as well as the internal properties of the largest object(s) forming in the box. We find that the scatter is at least comparable to the scatter in the fundamental mode.
Dominguez Alvaro
Knebe Alexander
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