Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1993-08-04
Astrophys.J. 429 (1994) 22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, AAS LaTeX v3.0, figures and/or postscript available by anonymous ftp to arcturus.mit.edu, MIT CSR-93-14
Scientific paper
10.1086/174298
This paper presents a general-relativistic N-body technique for evolving the phase space distribution of massive neutrinos in linear perturbation theory. The method provides a much more accurate sampling of the neutrino phase space for the HDM initial conditions of N-body simulations in a cold+hot dark matter universe than previous work. Instead of directly sampling the phase space at the end of the linear era, we first compute the evolution of the metric perturbations by numerically integrating the coupled, linearized Einstein, Boltzmann, and fluid equations for all particle species. We then sample the phase space shortly after neutrino decoupling at redshift z=10^9 when the distribution is Fermi-Dirac. To follow the trajectory of each neutrino, we subsequently integrate the geodesic equations for each neutrino in the perturbed background spacetime from z=10^9 to z=13.55, using the linearized metric found in the previous calculation to eliminate discreteness noise. The positions and momenta resulting from this integration represent a fair sample of the full neutrino phase space and can be used as HDM initial conditions for N-body simulations of nonlinear structure evolution in this model. A total of 21 million neutrino particles are used in a 100 Mpc box, with Omega_cdm=0.65, Omega_hdm=0.30, Omega_baryon=0.05, and Hubble constant H_0=50. We find that correlations develop in the neutrino densities and momenta which are absent when only the zeroth-order Fermi-Dirac distribution is considered.
Bertschinger Edmund
Ma Chung-Pei
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