What is overdensity in the cosmology ??

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Alisson Pereira Costa
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What is overdensity in the cosmology ??

Post by Alisson Pereira Costa » December 22 2013

What is overdensity in the cosmology ??



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Himanish Ganjoo
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What is overdensity in the cosmology ??

Post by Himanish Ganjoo » February 28 2016

Typically in cosmology, overdensity refers to the deviation of the density at a point from the average density:

[tex]\delta(x) = \frac{\rho(x) - \bar{\rho}}{\bar{\rho}}[/tex]

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