Neutrinos in non-linear structure formation — a simple SPH approach

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We present a novel method for implementing massive neutrinos in N-body simulations. Instead of sampling the neutrino velocity distribution by individual point particles we take neutrino free-streaming into account by treating it as an effective redshift dependent sound speed in a perfect isothermal fluid, and assume a relation between the sound speed and velocity dispersion of the neutrinos. Although the method fails to accurately model the true neutrino power spectrum, it is able to calculate the total matter power spectrum to the same accuracy as more complex hybrid neutrino methods, except on very small scales. We also present an easy way to update the publicly available GADGET-2 version with this neutrino approximation.
Original languageEnglish
Article number045
JournalJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume2
Number of pages13
ISSN1475-7516
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2012

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