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Massive Neutrinos and Galaxy Formation
We report the most recent results from high-resolution numerical simulations
of structure formation in two flat cold+hot dark matter models with neutrino
mass densities \onu=0.2 and 0.3. We find that structure forms too late in all
CDM+HDM models with \onu>0.2 to account for the amount of dense neutral gas
in high-redshift damped Lyman- systems. The \onu=0.2 model at
provides a better match to observations than the pure CDM model.Comment: 5 pages including 3 figures, uuencoded compressed postscript. To
appear in the Proceedings of the 5th Annual Astrophysics Conference in
Maryland "Dark Matter
Cosmological Perturbation Theory in the Synchronous vs. Conformal Newtonian Gauge
We present a systematic treatment of the linear theory of scalar
gravitational perturbations in the synchronous gauge and the conformal
Newtonian (or longitudinal) gauge. We first derive the transformation law
relating the two gauges. We then write down in parallel in both gauges the
coupled, linearized Boltzmann, Einstein and fluid equations that govern the
evolution of the metric perturbations and the density fluctuations of the
particle species. The particle species considered include cold dark matter
(CDM), baryons, photons, massless neutrinos, and massive neutrinos (a hot dark
matter or HDM candidate), where the CDM and baryon components are treated as
fluids while a detailed phase-space description is given to the photons and
neutrinos. The linear evolution equations presented are applicable to any
model with CDM or a mixture of CDM and HDM. Isentropic initial
conditions on super-horizon scales are derived. The equations are solved
numerically in both gauges for a CDM+HDM model with
, and . We discuss the
evolution of the metric and the density perturbations and compare their
different behaviors outside the horizon in the two gauges. In a companion paper
we integrate the geodesic equations for the neutrino particles in the perturbed
conformal Newtonian background metric computed here. The purpose is to obtain
an accurate sampling of the neutrino phase space for the HDM initial conditions
in -body simulations of the CDM+HDM models.Comment: 35 pages, AAS LaTeX v3.0, figures and/or postscript available by
anonymous ftp to arcturus.mit.edu, Caltech GRP-375; MIT-AT-94-01;
IASSNS-AST-94/
Schechter vs. Schechter: Sub-Arcsecond Gravitational Lensing and Inner Halo Profiles
Sub-arcsecond lensing statistics depend sensitively on the inner mass
profiles of low-mass objects and the faint-end slopes of the Schechter
luminosity function and the Press-Schechter mass function. By requiring the
luminosity and mass functions to give consistent predictions for the
distribution of image separation below 1'', we show that dark matter halos with
masses below 10^12 M_sun cannot have a single type of profile, be it the
singular isothermal sphere (SIS) or the shallower ``universal'' dark matter
profile. Instead, consistent results are achieved if we allow a fraction of the
halos at a given mass to be luminous with the SIS profile, and the rest be dark
with an inner logarithmic slope shallower than -1.5 to compensate for the
steeper faint-end slope of the mass function compared with the luminosity
function. We quantify how rapidly the SIS fraction must decrease with
decreasing halo mass, thereby providing a statistical measure for the
effectiveness of feedback processes on the baryon content in low-mass halos.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures. CLASS lensing data added; minor revisions. ApJL
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