The Cosmological Mass Function

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1997-10-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9710085v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

PhD thesis, in press on Fund. Cosm. Phys.; 94 pages, figures included, fig. 3.7 simplified, Latex2e, epsfig

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This thesis aims to review the cosmological mass function problem, both from the theoretical and the observational point of view, and to present a new mass function theory, based on realistic approximations for the dynamics of gravitational collapse. Chapter 1 gives a general introduction on gravitational dynamics in cosmological models. Chapter 2 gives a complete review of the mass function theory. Chapters 3 and 4 present the ``dynamical'' mass function theory, based on truncated Lagrangian dynamics and on the excursion set approach. Chapter 5 reviews the observational state-of-the-art and the main applications of the mass function theories described before. Finally, Chapter 6 gives conclusions and future prospects.

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