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Non-comoving Cold Dark Matter in a $\Lambda$CDM background

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-05-03 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We examine the evolution of peculiar velocities of cold dark matter (CDM) in localized arrays of inhomogeneous cosmic structures in a Λ\LambdaCDM background that can be identified as a frame comoving with the Cosmic Microwave (CMB). These arrays are constructed by smoothly matching to this cosmological background regions of Szekeres-II models whose source is an imperfect fluid reinterpreted as non-comoving dust, keeping only first order terms in v/cv/c. Considering a single Szekeres-II region matched along two comoving interfaces to a Λ\LambdaCDM background, the magnitudes of peculiar velocities within this region are compatible with values reported in the literature, while the present day Hubble expansion scalar differs from that of the Λ\LambdaCDM background value by a 10\% factor, a result that might provide useful information to the ongoing debate on the H0H_0 tension. While the models cannot describe the virialization process, we show through a representative example that structures of galactic cluster mass reach the onset of this process at redshifts around z3z\sim 3.

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@article{arxiv.2011.11192,
  title  = {Non-comoving Cold Dark Matter in a $\Lambda$CDM background},
  author = {Sebastián Nájera and Roberto A. Sussman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.11192},
  year   = {2021}
}

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15 pages, 8 figures

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