Cosmological Two-stream Instability
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2012-08-28 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
Two-stream instability requires, essentially, two things to operate: a relative flow between two fluids and some type of interaction between them. In this letter we provide the first demonstration that this mechanism may be active in a cosmological context. Building on a recently developed formalism for cosmological models with two, interpenetrating fluids with a relative flow between them, we show that two-stream instability may be triggered during the transition from one fluid domination to the other. We also demonstrate that the cosmological expansion eventually shuts down the instability by driving to zero the relativeflow and the coupling between the two fluids.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1111.5607,
title = {Cosmological Two-stream Instability},
author = {G. L. Comer and Patrick Peter and N. Andersson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.5607},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
9 pages, 3 figures. Final version that is published