Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-07-31
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Talk at 15th Florida Workshop in Nonlinear Astronomy and Physics "The Onset of Nonlinearity", 17-19 February 2000, Gainesville
Scientific paper
The Press-Schechter theory of the cosmological mass function and its modifications allow to constraint cosmological scenarios of the structure formation. Recently a few new models have been suggested that explored the influence of anisotropic collapse on the shape of the mass function. I discuss in more detail a particular model that assumes that a fluid particle becomes a part of a gravitationally bound halo when the smallest eigenvalue of the deformation tensor of the filtered initial density field reaches a certain threshold (like the filtered density contrast reaches the threshold in the Press-Schechter formalism). Choosing the smallest eigenvalue guarantees that the fluid particle in question experiences collapse along all three axes. The model shows a better agreement with the N-body simulations than the standard Press-Schechter model.
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