Growth rate of spherical voids with non-comoving dark matter and baryons

Abstract

AbstractWe present numerical solutions to Einstein’s equations describing large spherical cosmic voids constituted by two components: dark matter and baryons, with a non-vanishing initial relative velocity, in an asymptotically homogeneous background compatible with the ΛCDM concordance model. We compute numerically the evolution of such configurations in the dark matter frame, with a hypothetical homogeneous distribution of baryons, but respecting the values dictated by the concordance model for the average baryon-to-dark matter density ratio. We reproduce the well-known formation of overdensities at the edge of the void and recover the Lemaître–Tolman–Bondi solutions in the comoving limit of our simulations. We compute the average growth factor of matter fluctuations and find that it departs significantly from the linear perturbative prescription even in the comoving case, where the non-linearity of inhomogeneities has an impact.