Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-01-21
Astrophys.J.541:10,2000
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Minor changes to match the accepted ApJ version (ApJ, 539)
Scientific paper
10.1086/309412
The observed abundance of high-redshift galaxies and clusters contains precious information about the properties of the initial perturbations. We present a method to compute analytically the number density of objects as a function of mass and redshift for a range of physically motivated non-Gaussian models. In these models the non-Gaussianity can be dialed from zero and is assumed to be small. We compute the probability density function for the smoothed dark matter density field and we extend the Press and Schechter approach to mildly non-Gaussian density fields. The abundance of high-redshift objects can be directly related to the non-Gaussianity parameter and thus to the physical processes that generated deviations from the Gaussian behaviour. Even a skewness parameter of order 0.1 implies a dramatic change in the predicted abundance of $z\gap 1$ objects. Observations from NGST and X-ray satellites (XMM) can be used to accurately measure the amount of non-Gaussianity in the primordial density field.
Jimenez Raul
Matarrese Sabino
Verde Licia
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