Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-09-08
Astrophys.J. 465 (1996) 2
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
The paper is 26 pages long. The latex file uses aasms.sty as a style file. There are 5 figures and 2 tables included.
Scientific paper
10.1086/177397
Using percolation statistics we, for the first time, demonstrate the universal character of a network pattern in the real space, mass distributions resulting from nonlinear gravitational instability of initial Gaussian fluctuations. Percolation analysis of five stages of the nonlinear evolution of five power law models reveals that all models show a shift toward a network topology if seen with high enough resolution. However, quantitatively, the shift is significantly different in different models: the smaller the spectral index ,n, the stronger the shift. On the contrary, the shift toward the "bubble" topology is characteristic only for the n <= -1 models. We find that the mean density of the percolating structures in the nonlinear density distributions generally is very different from the density threshold used to identify them and corresponds much better to a visual impression. We also find that the maximum of the number of structures (connected regions above or below a specified density threshold) in the evolved, nonlinear distributions is always smaller than in Gaussian fields with the same spectrum, and is determined by the effective slope at the cutoff frequency.
Shandarin Sergei F.
Yess Capp
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