The Cosmic Web, Multi-Stream Flows, and Tessellations

Abstract

Understanding the structure of the matter distribution in the Universe due to the action of the gravitational instability -- the cosmic web -- is complicated by lack of direct analytic access to the nonlinear domain of structure formation. Here, we suggest and apply a novel tessellation method designed for cold dark matter (CDM) N-body cosmological simulations. The method is based on the fact that the initial CDM state can be described by a 3-D manifold (in a 6-D phase space) that remains continuous under evolution. Our technique uses the full phase space information and has no free parameters; it can be used to compute multi-stream and density fields, the main focus of this paper. Using a large-box LCDM simulation we carry out a variety of initial analyses with the technique. These include studying the correlation between multi-streaming and density, the identification of structures such as Zel'dovich pancakes and voids, and statistical measurements of quantities such as the volume fraction as a function of the number of streams -- where we find a remarkable scaling relation. Cosmological implications are briefly discussed.

15 pages, 14 figures

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