On the abundance of collapsed objects

Abstract

The redshift dependence of the abundance of collapsed objects places strong constraints on cosmological models of structure formation. We apply a recently proposed model describing the anisotropic collapse of inhomogeneous spatial domains. Compared with the spherical top-hat model, this generic model leads to significantly more collapsed objects at high redshifts: at redshift one and on the scale of rich clusters a factor of 65. Furthermore, for a fixed normalization of the initial fluctuation spectrum (σ_8=1), we predict four times as much presently collapsed objects on the mass-scale of rich clusters within the standard CDM cosmogony, compared to the spherical collapse.

4 pages, 2 figures, revised version accepted in the ApJL

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