Jeans Mass and the
Growth of Perturbations
•For a flat Einstein-de Sitter Universe R(t) ~ t2/3 and you get:
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In the case of a low density universe, the scale factor behaves:
In this latter case, perturbations are quenched for low z (~1/Ωo).  Low density, makes it hard to grow galaxies.