A New Statistical Indicator to Study Nonlinear Gravitational Clustering and Structure Formation

Details A New Statistical Indicator to Study Nonlinear Gravitational Clustering and Structure Formation A New Statistical Indicator to Study Nonlinear Gravitational Clustering and Structure Formation

1995-03-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9503121v2

Astrophys.J. 469 (1996) 470

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX with uuencoded figures, uses MN.sty and epsf.sty; Discussion has been enlarged to clarify a few poi

Scientific paper

10.1086/177796

In an expanding universe, velocity field and gravitational force field are proportional to each other in the linear regime. Neither of these quantities evolve in time and these can be scaled suitably so that the constant of proportionality is unity and velocity and force field are equal. The Zeldovich approximation extends this feature beyond the linear regime, until formation of pancakes. Nonlinear clustering which takes place {\it after} the breakdown of Zeldovich approximation, breaks this relation and the mismatch between these two vectors increases as the evolution proceeds. We suggest that the difference of these two vectors could form the basis for a powerful, new, statistical indicator of nonlinear clustering. We define an indicator called velocity contrast, study its behaviour using N-Body simulations and show that it can be used effectively to delineate the regions where nonlinear clustering has taken place. We discuss several features of this statistical indicator and provide simple analytic models to understand its behaviour. Particles with velocity contrast higher than a threshold have a correlation function which is biased with respect to the original sample. This bias factor is scale dependent and tends to unity at large scales.

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