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Interpret the requested abundance as comoving number density and use this question's mean density, rather than importing the different cosmology of Question 2. The mass-to-radius relation for a spherical top-hat window function givesThe normalization radius $7h^{-1}\mathrm{Mpc}$ is $10\mathrm{Mpc}$, not $4.9\mathrm{Mpc}$. Using $m=-3/4$,These are linearly extrapolated rms amplitudes, even when the numerical value at late times exceeds one. The high-redshift matter-dominated approximation is appropriate to the crossing sought below.

For $s=1/4$, the Press-Schechter halo mass function yieldsEquating this to $10^{-4}\mathrm{Mp}{\mathrm{c}}^{-3}$ gives $\nu e^{-{\nu }^2/2}=3.5555\times 10^{-5}$. On the rare-object branch, solving ${\nu }^2/2-\ln \nu =\ln (2.8125\times 10^4)$ gives $\nu \simeq 4.8634$. HenceThis is the first crossing as the Universe evolves from very early times. It retains the supplied scale-free extrapolation across a substantial range of scales; it is not a precision prediction using a full matter spectrum.

The abundance factor $\nu e^{-{\nu }^2/2}$ peaks at $\nu =1$. Therefore the same target has a second mathematical root, $\nu \simeq 3.56\times 10^{-5}$, corresponding to $z\simeq -0.99967$ if matter-dominated growth is extrapolated indefinitely. This extremely remote future branch is not the formation epoch and would not be physically justified by that growth approximation in a universe with late vacuum domination. This illustrates the two abundance crossings of the Press-Schechter mass function.

There is also an input-normalization qualification. If the characteristic cutoff is defined exactly by ${\nu }^2/2=(M/M_{\ast }{)}^{1/2}$, the variance normalization here gives $M_{\ast }(3)=10^{10}[\sqrt{2}(3.897)/1.68647{]}^4\simeq 1.14\times 10^{12}{M}_{\odot }$, rather than the earlier approximate quoted cutoff. The numerical estimate uses the explicit rms normalization in this part and the mass-scaling exponent from the preceding part; both cutoff normalizations cannot be imposed as exact simultaneously.