Velocity Fields in Non--Gaussian Cold Dark Matter Models

Details Velocity Fields in Non--Gaussian Cold Dark Matter Models Velocity Fields in Non--Gaussian Cold Dark Matter Models

1994-08-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9408018v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 272 (1995) 859

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages in Latex with mn.sty (available at the end of the paper)

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We analyse the large--scale velocity field obtained by N--body simulations of cold dark matter (CDM) models with non--Gaussian primordial density fluctuations, considering models with both positive and negative primordial skewness in the density fluctuation distribution. We study the velocity probability distribution and calculate the dependence of the bulk flow, one--point velocity dispersion and Cosmic Mach Number on the filtering size. We find that the sign of the primordial skewness of the density field provides poor discriminatory power on the evolved velocity field. All non--Gaussian models here considered tend to have lower velocity dispersion and bulk flow than the standard Gaussian CDM model, while the Cosmic Mach Number turns out to be a poor statistic in characterizing the models. Next, we compare the large--scale velocity field of a composite sample of optically selected galaxies as described by the Local Group properties, bulk flow, velocity correlation function and Cosmic Mach Number, with the velocity field of mock catalogues extracted from the N--body simulations. The comparison does not clearly permit to single out a best model: the standard Gaussian model is however marginally preferred by the maximum likelihood analysis.

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