Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-10-12
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 297 (1998) 467
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
38 pages (AAS latex) + 2 figures (postscript) combined in one gzip-ed tar file. Identical to original posted version, except f
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01497.x
We present a set of cosmological variables, called "supercomoving variables," which are particularly useful for describing the gas dynamics of cosmic structure formation. For ideal gas with gamma=5/3, the supercomoving position, velocity, density, temperature, and pressure are constant in time in a uniform, isotropic, adiabatically expanding universe. Expressed in terms of these supercomoving variables, the cosmological fluid conservation equations and the Poisson equation closely resemble their noncosmological counterparts. This makes it possible to generalize noncosmological results and techniques to cosmological problems, for a wide range of cosmological models. These variables were initially introduced by Shandarin for matter-dominated models only. We generalize supercomoving variables to models with a uniform component corresponding to a nonzero cosmological constant, domain walls, cosmic strings, a nonclumping form of nonrelativistic matter (e.g. massive nettrinos), or radiation. Each model is characterized by the value of the density parameter Omega0 of the nonrelativistic matter component in which density fluctuation is possible, and the density parameter OmegaX of the additional, nonclumping component. For each type of nonclumping background, we identify FAMILIES within which different values of Omega0 and OmegaX lead to fluid equations and solutions in supercomoving variables which are independent of Omega0 and OmegaX. We also include the effects of heating, radiative cooling, thermal conduction, viscosity, and magnetic fields. As an illustration, we describe 3 familiar cosmological problems in supercomoving variables: the growth of linear density fluctuations, the nonlinear collapse of a 1D plane-wave density fluctuation leading to pancake formation, and the Zel'dovich approximation.
Martel Hugo
Shapiro Paul R.
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