The work compiles a correlated study of a gravitational quasi equilibrium thermodynamic approach for establishing and signifying a unique behavior of the cosmological entropy and phase transitions in an expanding Universe. On the basis of prescribed boundary conditions for the cluster temperature a relation for the intra-cluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters has been derived. A more productive and signifying approach of the correlation functions used for galaxy clustering phenomena shows a unique behavior of the entropy change where a phenomenon known as the gravitational phase transition occurs. This unique behavior occurs with a symmetry breaking from mild clustering to low clustering and from mild clustering to high clustering which differs from a normal symmetry breaking in material sciences. We also derive results for the specific latent heat associated with the phase transitions of 3.20 T c and 0.55 T c for the mildly clustered phase to the low clustered phase and from the mildly clustered phase to the highly clustered phase, respectively.
The phenomenon of clustering of galaxies on the basis of correlation
functions in an expanding Universe is studied by using equation of state,
taking gravitational interaction between galaxies of extended nature into
consideration. The partial differential equation for the extended mass
structures of a two-point correlation function developed earlier by Iqbal,
Ahmad and Khan is studied on the basis of assigned boundary conditions. The
solution for the correlation function for extended structures satisfies the
basic boundary conditions, which seem to be sufficient for understanding the
phenomena, and provides a new insight into the gravitational clustering problem
for extended mass structures.Comment: 3 pages, no figure
In the present work the approach-thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of gravitating systems is applied to study the entropy change in gravitational clustering of galaxies in an expanding universe. We derive analytically the expressions for gravitational entropy in terms of temperature T and average density n of the particles (galaxies) in the given phase space cell. It is found that during the initial stage of clustering of galaxies, the entropy decreases and finally seems to be increasing when the system attains virial equilibrium. The entropy changes are studied for different range of measuring correlation parameter b. We attempt to provide a clearer account of this phenomena. The entropy results for a system consisting of extended mass (non-point mass) particles show a similar behaviour with that of point mass particles clustering gravitationally in an expanding universe.
Dynamical parameters like average velocity dispersion and temperature profile of galaxy clusters are determined using a quasi equilibrium thermodynamic theory. The calcu-
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