Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-06-17
Astrophys.J.652:L71-L74,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
accepted by ApJL, new analyses included, discussions improved
Scientific paper
10.1086/510122
We analyze the Millennium run semi-analytic galaxy catalog to explore quantitatively the gravitational pancaking effect on the orientation of galaxy velocity field. We first calculate the probability density distribution of the cosine of the angle between the velocity of a field galaxy and the direction normal to a local pancake plane which is determined using two nearest neighbor field galaxies. A clear signal of alignment is detected for the case that the pancake scale is in the range of $5-8h^{-1}$ Mpc. The tendency of the velocity-pancake alignment is found to still exist when the pancakes are determined using three neighbor galaxies, indicating that it has a spatial coherence. The degree of the velocity-pancake alignment is shown to increase with the velocity magnitude and the local density, while it decreases with the separation distance from the galaxy to the pancake and disappears when the pancake has a filamentary shape. A final conclusion is that our work may provide another clue to understanding the large-scale structure in the universe.
Lee Jounghun
Noh Yookyung
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