Pancakes and the formation of galaxies in a universe dominated by collisionless particles

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Big Bang Cosmology, Galactic Evolution, Universe, Adiabatic Conditions, Baryons, Neutrinos, Particle Motion, Scaling Laws

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Detailed, numerical hydrodynamical calculations are presented of the coupled growth of (baryon)-(collisionless particle) pancakes in a postrecombination Friedmann universe dominated by finite mass, stable, weakly interacting elementary particles such as neutrinos, gravitinos, photinos, or axions. The evolution of individual pancakes is calculated by numerically solving the hydrodynamical conservation equations for the baryonic fluid, together with the Poisson equation for the combined gravitational potential and the Vlasov equation for the collisionless particles, all in a homogeneous, isotropically expanding universe described by the Robertson-Walker metric. The effects of ionization, recombination, radiative and Compton cooling, and thermal conductivity are explicitly included. The results are analyzed in detail and compared with approximate, analytical solutions and scaling laws derived elsewhere.

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