Statistical characteristics of simulated walls |
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| Authors: | M Demia&#;ski A G Doroshkevich V Müller V Turchaninov |
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| Institution: | Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland;Department of Astronomy, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA;Theoretical Astrophysics Center, Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark;Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 125047 Moscow, Russia;Astrophysikalisches Institute Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany |
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| Abstract: | The large-scale matter distribution in three different simulations of CDM models is investigated and compared with corresponding results of the Zel'dovich theory of non-linear gravitational instability. We show that the basic characteristics of wall-like structure elements are well described by this theory, and that they can be expressed by the cosmological parameters and a few spectral moments of the perturbation spectrum. Therefore the characteristics of such elements provide reasonable estimates of these parameters. We show that the compressed matter is relaxed and gravitationally confined and manifests itself in the existence of walls as (quasi-)stationary structure elements with a lifetime restricted by their disruption into high-density clouds.
The matter distribution is investigated in both real and redshift spaces. In both cases almost the same particles form the walls, and we estimate differences in corresponding wall characteristics. The same methods are applied to several mock catalogues of 'galaxies', which allows us to characterize a large-scale bias between the spatial distribution of dark matter and of simulated 'galaxies'. |
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| Keywords: | galaxies: clusters: general cosmology: theory dark matter large-scale structure of Universe |
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