Dissipationless Clustering of Neutrinos in Cosmic String Induced Wakes

Jul, 1989
33 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 41 (1990) 1764
Report number:
  • BROWN-HET-711,
  • NSF-ITP-89-145

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Abstract: (APS)
Velocity perturbations which form in the wake of long straight strings moving at a relativistic speed can generate significant large-scale structure in the Universe. With neutrinos as dark matter, a considerable fraction of all galaxies forms in large-scale sheets. Here we study the dissipationless clustering of neutrinos in cosmic-string-induced wakes using an analysis based on the Gilbert equation, i.e., taking into account the velocity dispersion of neutrinos. We compare the results with simple heuristic analyses.
  • dark matter
  • string model
  • neutrino
  • model: cluster
  • velocity: dispersion
  • cosmological model