Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Aug 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985apj...295..368b&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 295, Aug. 15, 1985, p. 368-373. NASA-supported research.
Mathematics
Logic
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Astronomical Models, Correlation, Cosmology, Galactic Clusters, Algorithms, Many Body Problem, Mass Distribution, White Noise
Scientific paper
The cluster correlation function xic(r) is compared with the particle correlation function, xi(r) in cosmological N-body simulations with a wide range of initial conditions. The experiments include scale-free initial conditions, pancake models with a coherence length in the initial density field, and hybrid models. Three N-body techniques and two cluster-finding algorithms are used. In scale-free models with white noise initial conditions, xic and xi are essentially identical. In scale-free models with more power on large scales, it is found that the amplitude of xic increases with cluster richness; in this case the clusters give a biased estimate of the particle correlations. In the pancake and hybrid models (with n = 0 or 1), xic is steeper than xi, but the cluster correlation length exceeds that of the points by less than a factor of 2, independent of cluster richness. Thus the high amplitude of xic found in studies of rich clusters of galaxies is inconsistent with white noise and pancake models and may indicate a primordial fluctuation spectrum with substantial power on large scales.
Barnes Joshua
Dekel Avishai
Efstathiou George
Frenk Carlos S.
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