2-Point Moments in Cosmological Large Scale Structure: I. Theory and Comparison with Simulations

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2001-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107523v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 331 (2002) 13

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 LaTeX pages, 9 figs, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05110.x

We present new perturbation theory (PT) predictions in the Spherical Collapse (SC) model for the 2-point moments of the large-scale distribution of dark matter density in the universe. We assume that these fluctuations grow under gravity from small Gaussian initial conditions. These predictions are compared with numerical simulations and with previous PT results to assess their domain of validity. We find that the SC model provides in practice a more accurate description of 2-point moments than previous tree-level PT calculations. The agreement with simulations is excellent for a wide range of scales (5-50 Mpc/h) and fluctuations amplitudes (0.02-2 variance). When normalized to unit variance these results are independent of the cosmological parameters and of the initial amplitude of fluctuations. The 2-point moments provide a convenient tool to study the statistical properties of gravitational clustering for fairly non-linear scales and complicated survey geometries, such as those probing the clustering of the Ly-alpha forest. In this context, the perturbative SC predictions presented here, provide a simple and novel way to test the gravitational instability paradigm.

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