Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-11-22
Astron.Astrophys.464:811,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 4 figures. to appear in A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20066436
We present a coarse-grained field theory of density fluctuations for a Newtonian self-gravitating many-body system and apply it to a homogeneous Universe with small density fluctuations. The theory treats the clustering of galaxies and clusters in terms of the field of density fluctuations. The Jeans length $\lambda_0$, a unique physical scale for a gravitating system, appears naturally as the characteristic scale underlying the large scale structure. Under Gaussian approximation the analytic expressions of $\xi(r)$ and $P(k)$ are obtained. The correlation amplitude is proportional to the galactic mass, and is oscillating over large scales $\sim 100$ $h^{-1}$ Mpc and damped to zero. The spectrum amplitude is inversely proportional to the galactic number density.The preliminary results qualitatively explain some pronounced features of large scale structures.
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