The growth of structure in the intergalactic medium

Abstract

A {\it stochastic adhesion} model is introduced, with the purpose of describing the formation and evolution of mildly nonlinear structures, such as sheets and filaments, in the intergalactic medium (IGM), after hydrogen reionization. The model is based on replacing the overall force acting on the baryon fluid -- as it results from the composition of local gravity, pressure gradients and Hubble drag -- by a mock external force, self-consistently calculated from first-order perturbation theory. A small kinematic viscosity term prevents shell-crossing on small scales (which arises because of the approximate treatment of pressure gradients). The emerging scheme is an extension of the well-known adhesion approximation for the dark matter dynamics, from which it only differs by the presence of a small-scale `random' force, characterizing the IGM. Our algorithm is the ideal tool to obtain the skeleton of the IGM distribution, which is responsible for the structure observed in the low-column density Ly$\alpha$ forest in the absorption spectra of distant quasars.

26 pages, 6 figures, MNRAS in press (accepted version)

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