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Spherical top-hat Collapse of a Viscous Unified Dark Fluid

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-05-09 v6

Abstract

In this paper, we test the spherical collapse of a viscous unified dark fluid (VUDF) which has constant adiabatic sound speed and show the nonlinear collapse for VUDF, baryons, and dark matter which are important to form the large scale structure of our Universe. By varying the values of model parameters α\alpha and ζ0\zeta_{0}, we discuss their effects on the nonlinear collapse of the VUDF model, and compare its result to ΛCDM\Lambda CDM model. The analyzed results show that, within the spherical top-hat collapse framework, larger values of α\alpha and smaller values of ζ0\zeta_{0} make the structure formation earlier and faster, and the other collapse curves are almost distinguished with the curve of ΛCDM\Lambda CDM model if the bulk viscosity coefficient ζ0\zeta_{0} is less than 10310^{-3}.

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@article{arxiv.1401.1270,
  title  = {Spherical top-hat Collapse of a Viscous Unified Dark Fluid},
  author = {Wei Li and Lixin Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.1270},
  year   = {2014}
}