Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-07-06
Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 103502
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
25 pages, revtex, postscript figures included, in press on Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.103502
The cosmological mass function problem is analyzed in full detail in the case of 1D gravity, with analytical, semi-analytical and numerical techniques. The extended Press & Schechter theory is improved by detailing the relation between smoothing radius and mass of the objects. This is done by introducing in the formalism the concept of a growth curve for the objects. The predictions of the extended Press & Schechter theory are compared to large N-body simulations of flat expanding 1D universes with scale-free power spectra of primordial perturbations. The collapsed objects in the simulations are located with a clump-finding algorithm designed to find regions that have undergone orbit crossing or that are in the multi-stream regime (these are different as an effect of the finite size of the multi-stream regions). It is found that the semi-analytical mass function theory, which has no free parameters, is able to recover the properties of collapsed objects both statistically and object by object. In particular, the predictions of regions in orbit crossing are optimized by the use of Gaussian filtering, while the use of sharp k-space filtering apparently allows to reproduce the larger multi-stream regions. The mass function theory does not reproduce well the clumps found with the standard friends-of-friends algorithm; however, the performance of this algorithm has not been thoroughly tested in the 1D cosmology. Our preliminary analyses of the 3D case confirms that the techniques developed in this paper are precious in understanding the cosmological mass function problem in 3D.
Monaco Pierluigi
Murante Giuseppe
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