Primordial Non-Gaussianity: Baryon Bias and Gravitational Collapse of Cosmic String Wakes

Details Primordial Non-Gaussianity: Baryon Bias and Gravitational Collapse of Cosmic String Wakes Primordial Non-Gaussianity: Baryon Bias and Gravitational Collapse of Cosmic String Wakes

1998-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9801267v2

Astrophys.J. 503 (1998) 67-76

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, prepared with the AASTeX package. Minor modifications, results unchanged. ApJ in press, schedul

Scientific paper

10.1086/305996

I compute the 3-D non-linear evolution of gas and dark matter fluids in the neighbourhood of cosmic string wakes which are formed at high redshift ($z\simeq 2240$) for a ``realistic'' scenario of wake formation. These wakes are the ones which stand out most prominently as cosmological sheets and are expected to play a dominant r\^ole in the cosmic string model of structure formation. Employing a high-resolution 3-D hydrodynamics code to evolve these wakes until the present day yields results for the baryon bias generated in the inner wake region. I find that today, wakes would be $1.5 h^{-1}$ Mpc thick and contain a 70% excess in the density of baryons over the dark matter density in their centre. However, high density peaks in the wake region do not inherit a baryon enhancement. I propose a mechanism for this erasure of the baryon excess in spherically collapsed objects based on the geometry change around the collapsing region. Further, I present heuristic arguments for the consequences of this work for large scale structure in the cosmic string model and conclude that the peculiarities of wake formation are unlikely to have significant import on the discrepancy between power spectrum predictions and observations in this model. If one invokes the nucleosynthesis bound on $\Omega_b$ this could be seen as strengthening the case against $\Omega_m=1$ or for low Hubble constants.

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