A relativistic approach to nonlinear peculiar velocities and the Zeldovich approximation

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2002-09-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209143v2

Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 124015

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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10.1103/PhysRevD.66.124015

We study the peculiar motion of non-relativistic matter in a fully covariant way. The exact nonlinear equations are derived and then applied to the case of pressure-free matter, moving relatively to a quasi-Newtonian Eulerian frame. Our two-frame formalism facilitates the study of the nonlinear kinematics of the matter, as the latter decouples from the background expansion and starts to ``turn around'' and collapse. Applied to second perturbative order, our equations provide a fully covariant formulation of the Zeldovich approximation, which by construction addresses the mildly nonlinear regime of structure formation. Employing a dynamical system approach, we show that, just like in the Newtonian case, the relativistic treatment also predicts that pancakes are the natural end-structures for any generic overdensity.

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