Cosmological Filaments in the light of Excursion Set of Saddle Points

Abstract

The universe in large scales is structured as a network known as cosmic web. Filaments are one of the structural components of this web, which can be introduced as a novel probe to study the formation and evolution of structures and as a probe to study the cosmological models and to address the missing baryon problem. The aim of this work is to introduce an analytical framework to study the statistics of filaments such as number density of them and also to obtain the length-mass relation. For this objective, we model filaments as collapsed objects which have an extension in one direction, accordingly we use the ellipsoidal collapse to study the evolution of an over-dense region via gravitational instability. %In this context, we consider the critical density of filament formation, which will be a crucial parameter for number density count. We find that the nonlinear density of filaments in the epoch of formation is almost mass independent and is in order of $\sim 30$. By introducing {\it{filament's extended condition}} we find a fitting function for length-mass relation. For the statistics of filaments, we propose a novel framework named excursion set of saddle points. In this approach, we count the saddle points of the density field Hessian matrix, and relate it to the count of filaments. In addition, we addressed the filament in filament problem with up-crossing approximation.

arXiv comment11 pages, 10 figures, Final Version. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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