Coarse-grained cosmological perturbation theory: stirring up the dust model

Abstract

We study the effect of coarse-graining the dynamics of a pressureless selfgravitating fluid (coarse-grained dust) in the context of cosmological perturbation theory, both in the Eulerian und Lagrangian framework. We obtain recursion relations for the Eulerian perturbation kernels of the coarse-grained dust model by relating them to those of the standard pressureless fluid model. The effect of the coarse-graining is illustrated by means of power and cross spectra for density and velocity that are computed up to 1-loop order. In particular, the large scale vorticity power spectrum that arises naturally from a mass-weighted velocity is derived from first principles. We find qualitatively good agreement of the magnitude, shape and spectral index of the vorticity power spectrum with recent measurements from N-body simulations and results from the effective field theory of large scale structure. To lay the ground for applications in the context of Lagrangian perturbation theory we finally describe how the kernels obtained in Eulerian space can be mapped to Lagrangian ones.

arXiv comment13 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PRD

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