Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997aas...190.3805p&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 190th AAS Meeting, #38.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.828
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
It is of fundamental importance to determine if and how hierarchical clustering is involved in large-scale structure formation of the universe. Hierarchical evolution is characterized by rules which specify how dark halos are formed by merging of halos at smaller scales. We show that scale-scale correlations of the matter density field are direct and sensitive measures to quantify this merging tree. Such correlations are most conveniently determined from discrete wavelet transforms. Analyzing two samples of Lyalpha forests of QSO's absorption spectra, we find significant scale-scale correlations whose scale dependence is typical for branching processes. Therefore, models which predict a ``history'' independent evolution are ruled out and the halos hosting the Lyalpha clouds must have gone through a ``history'' dependent merging process during their formation.
Fang L.-Z.
Greiner Martin
Lipa Peter
Pando Jesus
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