Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-12-11
MNRAS (1998) Vol. 300, pp. 163
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Replaced to the published edition. 6 pages, including 4 figures / mn.sty and epsf.sty are used / submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01891.x
Cold collapse of a cluster composed of small identical clumps, each of which is in virial equilibrium, is considered. Since the clumps have no relative motion with respect to each other initially, the cluster collapses by its gravity. At the first collapse of the cluster, most of the clumps are destroyed, but some survive. In order to find the condition for the clumps to survive, we made systematic study in two-parameter space: the number of the clumps $N_c$ and the size of the clump $r_v$. We obtained the condition, $N_c \gg 1$ and $n_k \geq 1$, where $n_k$ is related to $r_v$ and the initial radius of the cluster $R_{ini}$ through the relation $R_{ini}/r_v = 2 N_c^{(n_k+5)/6}$. A simple analytic argument supports the numerical result. This $n_k$ corresponds to the index of the power spectrum of the density fluctuation in the cosmological hierarchical clustering, and thus our result may suggest that in the systems smaller than $2/(\Omega h^2)$Mpc, the first violent collapse is strong enough to sweep away all substructures which exist before the collapse.
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