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Past exam of the astrophysics course of the University of Oxford 2018 2 b Solution by
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For , neglect pressure support. The growing and decaying Jeans instability modes obeyIn an Einstein-de Sitter universe, gives , and the matter-density relation gives . ThusTry a power law . Its characteristic equation isTherefore the Einstein-de Sitter density-growth modes areThis is a linear result while ; a growing mode eventually leaves that regime.
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