Formation of Large Scale Structure in the Explosion Scenario

Abstract

This is a progress report on a study of the formation of large scale structure in the explosive amplification scenario, using N-body simulations. The simulations start when galaxies of the last generation form. The galaxies are distributed at random in expanding shells around random seeds. They start with an expansion velocity 20% larger than the Hubble velocity, in accordance with the similarity solution that was valid before the gaseous shells fragmented into galaxies. The galaxies are treated thereafter as softened point particles that interact only gravitationally, embedded in an N-body background representing inter-shell gas and dark matter (in variable amounts).