Streaming velocities as a dynamical estimator of Omega
Abstract
It is well known that estimating the pairwise velocity of galaxies, v_{12}, from the redshift space galaxy correlation function is difficult because this method is highly sensitive to the assumed model of the pairwise velocity dispersion. Here we propose an alternative method to estimate v_{12} directly from peculiar velocity samples, which contain redshift-independent distances as well as galaxy redshifts. In contrast to other dynamical measures which determine beta = sigma_8 x Omega^{0.6}, our method can provide an estimate of (sigma_8)^2 x Omega^{0.6} for a range of sigma_8 (here Omega is the cosmological mass density parameter while sigma_8 is the standard normalization parameter for the spectrum of matter density fluctuations). We demonstrate how to measure this quantity from realistic catalogues.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9812456,
title = {Streaming velocities as a dynamical estimator of Omega},
author = {P. G. Ferreira and R. Juszkiewicz and H. A. Feldman and M. Davis and A. H. Jaffe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9812456},
year = {2009}
}
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8 pages of text, 4 figures Subject headings: Cosmology: theory - observation - peculiar velocities: large scale flows Last name of one of the authors was misspelled. It is now corrected. Otherwise the manuscript is identical to its original version