Open AccessThe origin of spatial intermittency in the galaxy distribution
Author(s) -
Coles Peter
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05096.x
Subject(s) - intermittency , physics , galaxy , log normal distribution , poisson distribution , statistical physics , gravitation , distribution (mathematics) , classical mechanics , astrophysics , poisson's equation , gravitational potential , mathematical physics , theoretical physics , turbulence , mathematical analysis , statistics , mechanics , quantum mechanics , mathematics
The dynamical equations describing the evolution of a self‐gravitating fluid can be rewritten in the form of a Schrödinger equation coupled to a Poisson equation determining the gravitational potential. This approach has a number of interesting features, many of which were pointed out in a seminal paper by Widrow & Kaiser. In particular we show that this approach yields an elegant reformulation of an idea of Jones concerning the origin of lognormal intermittency in the galaxy distribution.