First investigation of void statistics in numerical relativity simulations

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: First investigation of void statistics in numerical relativity simulations
المؤلفون: Williams, Michael J., Macpherson, Hayley J., Wiltshire, David L., Stevens, Chris
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
الوصف: We apply and extend standard tools for void statistics to cosmological simulations that solve Einstein's equations with numerical relativity (NR). We obtain a simulated void catalogue without Newtonian approximations, using a new watershed void finder which operates on fluid-based NR simulations produced with the Einstein Toolkit. We compare and contrast measures of void size and void fraction, and compare radial stacked density profiles to empirically-derived Hamaus-Sutter-Wandelt (HSW) density profiles and profiles based on distance to void boundaries. We recover statistics roughly consistent with Newtonian N-body simulations where such a comparison is meaningful. We study variation of dynamical spatial curvature and local expansion explicitly demonstrating the spatial fluctuations of these quantities in void regions. We find that voids in our simulations expand ~10-30% faster than the global average and the kinetic curvature density parameter in the centre of voids reaches ~60-80%. Within the limits of resolution of the simulations, the results are consistent with the parameters of the Timescape model of cosmological backreaction.
Comment: 15 pages, 14 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
الوصول الحر: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15134Test
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2403.15134
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv