Evidence for a low-density Universe from the relative velocities of galaxies
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
The motions of galaxies can be used to constrain the cosmological density parameter Omega and the clustering amplitude of matter on large scales. The mean relative velocity of galaxy pairs, estimated from the Mark III survey, indicates that Omega = 0.35 +0.35/-0.25. If the clustering of galaxies is unbiased on large scales, Omega = 0.35 +/- 0.15, so that an unbiased Einstein-de Sitter model (Omega = 1) is inconsistent with the data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0001041,
title = {Evidence for a low-density Universe from the relative velocities of galaxies},
author = {R. Juszkiewicz and P. G. Ferreira and H. A. Feldman and A. H. Jaffe and M. Davis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0001041},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Jan.7 issue of ``Science''; In the original version, the title appeared twice. This problem has now been corrected. No other changes were made