Cosmological Simulations with Scale-Free Initial Conditions. I. Adiabatic Hydrodynamics
- LLNL, L-16, PO Box 808, Livermore, CA 94551 (United States)
- Ohio State University, Department of Astronomy, Columbus, OH 43210 (United States)
- University of Michigan, Department of Physics, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (United States)
- University of California, Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 (United States)
- University of Massachusetts, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Amherst, MA 01003 (United States)
We analyze hierarchical structure formation based on scale-free initial conditions in an Einstein{endash}de Sitter universe, including a baryonic component with {Omega}{sub bary} = 0.05. We present three independent, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations, performed at two resolutions (32{sup 3} and 64{sup 3} dark matter and baryonic particles) and with two different SPH codes (TreeSPH and P3MSPH). Each simulation is based on identical initial conditions, which consist of Gaussian-distributed initial density fluctuations that have a power spectrum {ital P}({ital k}) {proportional_to} {ital k}{sup {minus}1}. The baryonic material is modeled as an ideal gas subject only to shock heating and adiabatic heating and cooling; radiative cooling and photoionization heating are not included. The evolution is expected to be self-similar in time, and under certain restrictions we identify the expected scalings for many properties of the distribution of collapsed objects in all three realizations. The distributions of dark matter masses, baryon masses, and mass- and emission-weighted temperatures scale quite reliably. However, the density estimates in the central regions of these structures are determined by the degree of numerical resolution. As a result, mean gas densities and Bremsstrahlung luminosities obey the expected scalings only when calculated within a limited dynamic range in density contrast. The temperatures and luminosities of the groups show tight correlations with the baryon masses, which we find can be well represented by power laws. The Press-Schechter (PS) approximation predicts the distribution of group dark matter and baryon masses fairly well, though it tends to overestimate the baryon masses. Combining the PS mass distribution with the measured relations for {ital T}({ital M}) and {ital L}({ital M}) predicts the temperature and luminosity distributions fairly accurately, though there are some discrepancies at high temperatures/luminosities. In general the three simulations agree well for the properties of resolved groups, where a group is considered resolved if it contains more than 32 particles. {copyright} {ital {copyright} 1998.} {ital The American Astronomical Society}
- OSTI ID:
- 307191
- Journal Information:
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 503, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: Aug 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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