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Scaling Relations for Collision-less Dark Matter Turbulence

Astrophysics 2010-02-04 v3

Abstract

Many scaling relations are observed for self-gravitating systems in the universe. We explore the consistent understanding of them from a simple principle based on the proposal that the collision-less dark matter fluid terns into a turbulent state, i.e. dark turbulence, after crossing the caustic surface in the non-linear stage. The dark turbulence will not eddy dominant reflecting the collision-less property. After deriving Kolmogorov scaling laws from Navier-Stokes equation by the method similar to the one for Smoluchowski coagulation equation, we apply this to several observations such as the scale-dependent velocity dispersion, mass-luminosity ratio, magnetic fields, and mass-angular momentum relation, power spectrum of density fluctuations. They all point the concordant value for the constant energy flow per mass: 0.3cm2/sec30.3 cm^2/sec^3, which may be understood as the speed of the hierarchical coalescence process in the cosmic structure formation.

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@article{arxiv.0805.0172,
  title  = {Scaling Relations for Collision-less Dark Matter Turbulence},
  author = {Akika Nakamichi and Masahiro Morikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.0172},
  year   = {2010}
}

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26 pages, 6 figures