Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-10-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
43 pages, including 15 figures. Accepted version in ApJ. Included correlation function of different samples of galaxies, and t
Scientific paper
10.1086/320966
We carry out an extensive study of the cosmic Mach number (\mach) on scales of R=5, 10 and 20h^-1Mpc using an LCDM hydrodynamical simulation. We particularly put emphasis on the environmental dependence of \mach on overdensity, galaxy mass, and galaxy age. We start by discussing the difference in the resulting \mach according to different definitions of \mach and different methods of calculation. The simulated Mach numbers are slightly lower than the linear theory predictions even when a non-linear power spectrum was used in the calculation, reflecting the non-linear evolution in the simulation. We find that the observed \mach is higher than the simulated mean by more than 2-standard deviations, which suggests either that the Local Group is in a relatively low-density region or that the true value of \Omega_m is ~ 0.2, significantly lower than the simulated value of 0.37. We show from our simulation that the Mach number is a weakly decreasing function of overdensity. We also investigate the correlations between galaxy age, overdensity and \mach for two different samples of galaxies --- DWARFs and GIANTs. Older systems cluster in higher density regions with lower \mach, while younger ones tend to reside in lower density regions with larger \mach, as expected from the hierarchical structure formation scenario. However, for DWARFs, the correlation is weakened by the fact that some of the oldest DWARFs are left over in low-density regions during the structure formation history. For giant systems, one expects blue-selected samples to have higher \mach than red-selected ones. We briefly comment on the effect of the warm dark matter on the expected Mach number.
Cen Renyue
Nagamine Kentaro
Ostriker Jeremiah P.
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