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On the statistical theory of self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow: Scale and redshift variation of velocity and density distributions (2202.06515v3)

Published 14 Feb 2022 in astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA, and physics.flu-dyn

Abstract: This paper studies the scale and redshift variation of density and velocity distributions in self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow by a halo-based non-projection approach. All particles are divided into halo and out-of-halo particles for redshift variation of distributions. Without projecting particle fields onto a structured grid, the scale variation is analyzed by identifying all particle pairs on different scales $r$. We demonstrate that: i) Delaunay tessellation can be used to reconstruct the density field. The density correlation, spectrum, and dispersion functions were obtained, modeled, and compared with the N-body simulation; ii) the velocity distributions are symmetric on both small and large scales and are non-symmetric with a negative skewness on intermediate scales due to the inverse energy cascade at a constant rate $\varepsilon_u$; iii) On small scales, the even order moments of pairwise velocity $\Delta u_L$ follow a two-thirds law $\propto{(-\varepsilon_ur)}{2/3}$, while the odd order moments follow a linear scaling $\langle(\Delta u_L){2n+1}\rangle=(2n+1)\langle(\Delta u_L){2n}\rangle\langle\Delta u_L\rangle\propto{r}$; iv) The scale variation of the velocity distributions was studied for longitudinal velocities $u_L$ or $u_L{'}$, pairwise velocity (velocity difference) $\Delta u_L$=$u_L{'}$-$u_L$ and velocity sum $\Sigma u_L$=$u{'}_L$+$u_L$. Fully developed velocity fields are never Gaussian on any scale, despite that they can initially be Gaussian; v) On small scales, $u_L$ and $\Sigma u_L$ can be modeled by a $X$ distribution to maximize the system entropy; vi) On large scales, $\Delta u_L$ and $\Sigma u_L$ can be modeled by a logistic or a $X$ distribution; vii) the redshift variation of the velocity distributions follows the evolution of the $X$ distribution involving a shape parameter $\alpha(z)$ decreasing with time.

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