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We present a general framework to treat the evolution of one-point probability distribution function (PDF) for cosmic density $\delta$ and velocity-divergence fields $\theta$. In particular, we derive an evolution equation for the one-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yasuhiro Ohta , Issha Kayo , Atsushi Taruya

We study the quasilinear evolution of the one-point probability density functions (PDFs) of the smoothed density and velocity fields in a cosmological gravitating system beginning with Gaussian initial fluctuations. Our analytic results are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Lev Kofman , Edmund Bertschinger , James M. Gelb , Adi Nusser , Avishai Dekel

The properties of the probability distribution function of the cosmological continuous density field are studied. We present further developments and compare dynamically motivated methods to derive the PDF. One of them is based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 F. Bernardeau , L. Kofman

We study the one-point probability distribution functions (PDFs) of the peculiar velocity and the density fluctuation in a cosmological fluid. Within the perturbative approach to the structure formation scenario, the effect of ``pressure''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takayuki Tatekawa

The gravitational evolution of the cosmic one-point probability distribution function (PDF) has been estimated using an analytic approximation that combines gravitational perturbation theory with the Edgeworth expansion around a Gaussian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Gaztanaga , P. Fosalba , E. Elizalde

We present a new calculation for the evolution of the 1-point Probability Distribution Function (PDF) of the cosmological density field based on an exact statistical treatment. Using the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation and second-order Eulerian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew Taylor , Peter Watts

The one-point probability distribution function (pdf) of the large-scale density field is an important tool to follow the evolution of cosmological structures. In this paper we present a new model for this pdf for all regimes and all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Valageas , Dipak Munshi

The gravitational evolution of the cosmic one-point Probability Distribution Function (PDF) can be estimated using an analytic approximation that combines gravitational Perturbation Theory (PT) with the Edgeworth expansion around a Gaussian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga , E. Elizalde

We calculate the cosmological evolution of the 1-point probability distribution function (PDF), using an analytic approximation that combines gravitational perturbation theory with the Edgeworth expansion of the PDF. Our method applies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Juszkiewicz , D. Weinberg , P. Amsterdamski , M. Chodorowski , F. Bouchet

We present a new analytic calculation for the redshift-space evolution of the 1-point galaxy Probability Distribution Function (PDF). The nonlinear evolution of the matter density field is treated by second-order Eulerian perturbation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Watts , Andrew Taylor

We calculate the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) for cosmic density in non-linear regime of the gravitational evolution. Under the local approximation that the evolution of cosmic fluid fields can be characterized by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasuhiro Ohta , Issha Kayo , Atsushi Taruya

The Lagrangian dynamics of a single fluid element within a self-gravitational matter field is intrinsically non-local due to the presence of the tidal force. This complicates the theoretical investigation of the non-linear evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Xin Wang , Alex Szalay

In this paper, we study the statistical evolution of the large-scale structure (LSS), focusing on the joint probability distribution function (PDF) of the coarse-grained cosmic field and its role in constructing effective dynamics. As the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Xin Wang

We quantitatively study the probability distribution function (PDF) of cosmological nonlinear density fluctuations from N-body simulations with Gaussian initial condition. In particular, we examine the validity and limitations of one-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Issha Kayo , Atsushi Taruya , Yasushi Suto

The one-point probability distribution function (PDF) of the matter density field in the universe is a fundamental property that plays an essential role in cosmology for estimates such as gravitational weak lensing, non-linear clustering,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Juan Betancort-Rijo , Franco D. Albareti

We use the physics of ellipsoidal collapse to model the probability distribution function of the smoothed dark matter density field in real and redshift space. We provide a simple approximation to the exact collapse model which shows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-05 Tsz Yan Lam , Ravi K. Sheth

We investigate the nonlinear evolution of cosmic morphologies of the large-scale structure by examining the Lagrangian dynamics of various tensors of a cosmic fluid element, including the velocity gradient tensor, the Hessian matrix of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Xin Wang , Alex Szalay

We study an effect of inhomogeneity of density distribution of the Universe. We propose a new Lagrangian perturbation theory with a backreaction effect by inhomogeneity. The inhomogeneity affects the expansion rate in a local domain and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takayuki Tatekawa , Momoko Suda , Kei-ichi Maeda , Hiroto Kubotani

We present an analytical description of the probability distribution function (PDF) of the smoothed three-dimensional matter density field for modified gravity and dark energy. Our approach, based on the principles of Large Deviations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 Matteo Cataneo , Cora Uhlemann , Christian Arnold , Alex Gough , Baojiu Li , Catherine Heymans

Time series of observables measured from complex systems do often exhibit non-normal statistics, their statistical distributions (PDF's) are not gaussian and often skewed, with roughly exponential tails. Departure from gaussianity is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-06-29 F. Sattin
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