Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-05-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 3 postscript figures, uses aas2pp4.sty
Scientific paper
10.1086/306620
A companion paper presents a worked model for evolution through inflation to initial conditions for an isocurvature model for structure formation. It is shown here that the model is consistent with the available observational constraints that can be applied without the help of numerical simulations. The model gives an acceptable fit to the second moments of the angular fluctuations in the thermal background radiation and the second through fourth moments of the measured large-scale fluctuations in galaxy counts, within the possibly significant uncertainties in these measurements. The cluster mass function requires a rather low but observationally acceptable mass density, $0.1\lsim\Omega\lsim 0.2$ in a cosmologically flat universe. Galaxies would be assembled earlier in this model than in the adiabatic version, an arguably good thing. Aspects of the predicted non-Gaussian character of the anisotropy of the thermal background radiation in this model are discussed.
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