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Turning Around along the Cosmic Web

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2016-12-15 v2

Abstract

A bound-violation designates a case that the turn-around radius of a bound object exceeds the upper limit put by the spherical collapse model based on the standard Λ\LambdaCDM paradigm. Given that the turn-around radius of a bound object is a stochastic quantity and that the spherical model overly simplifies the true gravitational collapse which actually proceeds anisotropically along the cosmic web, the rarity of the occurrence of a bound violation may depend on the web environment. Assuming a Planck cosmology, we numerically construct the bound-zone peculiar velocity profiles along the cosmic web (filaments and sheets) around the isolated groups with virial mass Mv3×1013h1MM_{\rm v}\ge 3\times 10^{13}\,h^{-1}M_{\odot} identified in the Small MultiDark Planck simulations and determine the radial distances at which their peculiar velocities equal the Hubble expansion speed as the turn-around radii of the groups. It is found that although the average turn-around radii of the isolated groups are well below the spherical bound-limit on all mass scales, the bound violations are not forbidden for individual groups and that the cosmic web has an effect of reducing the rarity of the occurrence of a bound violation. Explaining that the spherical bound limit on the turn-around radius in fact represents the threshold distance up to which the intervention of the external gravitational field in the bound-zone peculiar velocity profiles around the non-isolated groups stays negligible, we discuss the possibility of using the threshold distance scale to constrain locally the equation of state of dark energy .

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@article{arxiv.1608.01422,
  title  = {Turning Around along the Cosmic Web},
  author = {Jounghun Lee and Gustavo Yepes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01422},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

accepted for publication in ApJ, revised version, minor mistakes corrected, 12 figures, 2 tables

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