Note on Structure Formation from Cosmic String Wakes

Understand

The search for cosmic strings has been of renewed interest with the advent of precision cosmology.

• In this note we give a quantitative description of the nonlinear matter density fluctuations that can form from a scaling network of cosmic string wakes.
• Specifically, we compute the distribution of dark matter halos.
• These halos would possess strong correlations in position space that should have survived until today.