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Formation of Large Scale Structure in the Explosion Scenario

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

S. Saarinen
Affiliation:
Yale Univ.
A. Dekel
Affiliation:
Yale Univ. Weizmann Inst.
B.J. Carr
Affiliation:
QMC, London

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This is a progress report on a study of the formation of large scale structure in the explosive amplification scenario, using N-body simulations. The simulations start when galaxies of the last generation form. The galaxies are distributed at random in expanding shells around random seeds. They start with an expansion velocity 20% larger than the Hubble velocity, in accordance with the similarity solution that was valid before the gaseous shells fragmented into galaxies. The galaxies are treated thereafter as softened point particles that interact only gravitationally, embedded in an N-body background representing inter-shell gas and dark matter (in variable amounts).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987