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Extending the scope of models for large-scale structure formation in the Universe

Astrophysics 2011-05-23 v2

Abstract

We propose a phenomenological generalization of the models of large-scale structure formation in the Universe by gravitational instability in two ways: we include pressure forces to model multi-streaming, and noise to model fluctuations due to neglected short-scale physical processes. We show that pressure gives rise to a viscous-like force of the same character as that one introduced in the ``adhesion model'', while noise leads to a roughening of the density field yielding a scaling behavior of its correlations.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9709218,
  title  = {Extending the scope of models for large-scale structure formation in the Universe},
  author = {Thomas Buchert and Alvaro Dominguez and Juan Perez-Mercader},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9709218},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

matches published version in A&A, incl. 3 figures