Einstein-de Sitter virial overdensity
ID: einstein-de-sitter-virial-overdensity
For ideal isolated spherical collapse, energy conservation and the virial theorem give and if the density-profile shape is unchanged. The cycloid gives and . Since the Einstein-de Sitter universe has , the overdensity at the nominal collapse time is . Hence . The collapse time is that of the formal cold solution; actual virialization replaces its point collapse.
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