Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-12-28
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 314 (2000) 279
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 6 figures. Final version, contains added discussion and modified figures to match the accepted version
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03275.x
We investigate the evolution of non-linear density perturbations by taking into account the effects of deviations from spherical symmetry of a system. Starting from the standard spherical top hat model in which these effects are ignored, we introduce a physically motivated closure condition which specifies the dependence of the additional terms on the density contrast, $\delta$. The modified equation can be used to model the behaviour of an overdense region over a sufficiently large range of $\delta$. The key new idea is a Taylor series expansion in ($1/\delta$) to model the non-linear epoch. We show that the modified equations quite generically lead to the formation of stable structures in which the gravitational collapse is halted at around the virial radius. The analysis also allows us to connect up the behaviour of individual overdense regions with the non-linear scaling relations satisfied by the two point correlation function.
Engineer Sunu
Kanekar Nissim
Padmanabhan Thanu
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