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waynehu

Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Chicago

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Matter Power Spectrum

The same balance between pressure and gravity that is responsible for acoustic oscillations determines the power spectrum of fluctuations in the non-relativistic matter. This relationship is often obscured by focussing on the density fluctuations in the pressureless cold dark matter itself and we so we will instead consider the matter power spectrum from the perspective of the Newtonian potential.


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