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Numerical Analyses of Weakly Nonlinear Velocity-Density Coupling

Astrophysics 2016-08-30 v1

Abstract

We study evolution of various statistical quantities of smoothed cosmic density and velocity fields using N-body simulations. The parameter C<V2δ>/(<V2><δ2>)C\equiv <V^2\delta>/(<V^2> <\delta^2>) characterizes nonlinear coupling of these two fields and determines behavior of bulk velocity dispersion as a function of local density contrast. It is found that this parameter depends strongly on the smoothing scale even in quasi-linear regimes where the skewness parameter S3S_3 is nearly constant and close to the predicted value by the second-order perturbation theory. We also analyze weakly nonlinear effects caused by an adaptive smoothing known as the gather approach.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0105189,
  title  = {Numerical Analyses of Weakly Nonlinear Velocity-Density Coupling},
  author = {Naoki Seto and Naoshi Sugiyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0105189},
  year   = {2016}
}

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22 pages, 4 figures, to appear in ApJ (558, Sep 10)

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