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Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 894–896 (1982)

Simulation of Gravitational Superclustering of Massive Neutrinos

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Adrian L. Melott*
Center for Relativity Theory, Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712

Received 25 September 1981; published in the issue dated 29 March 1982

Results of a numerical simulation of large-scale, plane, symmetric gravitational clustering of massive neutrinos are presented. It is shown that neutrinos may cluster in galactic halos in the adiabatic scenario of galaxy formation. The population of test particles exhibits very little phase mixing, suggesting that the scale of galactic halos may be set by the neutrino mass.

© 1982 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.894
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.894
PACS:
98.50.Kg, 14.60.Gh, 95.30.Cg, 95.50.Eb

*Present address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Penn. 15260.