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Beyond Spherical Top Hat Collapse

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2011-06-13 v1

Abstract

We study the evolution of inhomogeneous spherical perturbations in the universe in a way that generalizes the spherical top hat collapse in a straightforward manner. For that purpose we derive a dynamical equation for the evolution of the density contrast in the context of a Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi metric and construct solutions with and without a cosmological constant for the evolution of a spherical perturbation with a given initial radial profile.

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@article{arxiv.1008.2246,
  title  = {Beyond Spherical Top Hat Collapse},
  author = {T. S. Pereira and R. Rosenfeld and A. Sanoja},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2246},
  year   = {2011}
}

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14 pages,6 figures

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