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We study the peculiar velocity field inferred from the Mark III spirals using a new method of analysis. We estimate optimal values of Tully-Fisher scatter and zero-point offset, and we derive the 3-dimensional rms peculiar velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nelson Padilla , Diego G. Lambas

The Tully-Fisher (TF) and Fundamental Plane (FP) relations are widely used to infer extragalactic distances and peculiar velocities, enabling measurements of large-scale velocity statistics and cosmological parameters. Using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 Tyann Dumerchat , Raul E. Angulo , Julian Bautista , Cesar Aguayo , Sownak Bose , Lars Hernquist

The low-order kinematic moments of galaxies, namely bulk flow and shear, enables us to test whether theoretical models can accurately describe the evolution of the mass density field in the nearby Universe. We use the so-called etaMLE…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 Fei Qin , Cullan Howlett , Lister Staveley-Smith , Tao Hong

We present the first results from the Shellflow program, an all-sky Tully-Fisher (TF) peculiar velocity survey of 276 Sb-Sc galaxies with redshifts between 4500 and 7000 km/s. Shellflow was designed to minimize systematic errors between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Courteau , J. A. Willick , M. A. Strauss , D. Schlegel , M. Postman

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) has produced a three-dimensional map of the distribution of 221,000 galaxies covering 5% of the sky and reaching out to a redshift z=0.3. This is first map of the large-scale structure in the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Colless

We present the reconstructed real-space density and the predicted velocity fields from the Two Mass Redshift Survey (2MRS). The 2MRS is the densest all-sky redshift survey to date and includes about 23,200 galaxies with extinction corrected…

The new L-band 7-feed-array at the 100-m telescope in Effelsberg will be used to perform an unbiased fully sampled HI survey of the entire northern hemisphere observing the galactic and extragalactic sky using simultaneously two different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 B. Winkel , J. Kerp , P. Kalberla , R. Keller

Recent progress in the measurement of relative distances to galaxies has been quite substantial, and catalogs of 3000 galaxies with distances are soon to become available. The peculiar {\it velocity} field (deviations from Hubble flow)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Marc Davis , Adi Nusser

We have obtained I band Tully-Fisher (TF) measurements for 522 late-type galaxies in the fields of 52 rich Abell clusters distributed throughout the sky between 50 and 200\h Mpc. Here we estimate corrections to the data for various forms of…

Peculiar velocities arise from gravitational instability, and thus are linked to the surrounding distribution of matter. In order to understand the motion of the Local Group with respect to the Cosmic Microwave Background, a deep all-sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Guilhem Lavaux , Michael J. Hudson

Our view of the low-redshift Cosmic Web has been revolutionized by galaxy redshift surveys such as 6dFGS, SDSS and 2MRS. However, the trade-off between depth and angular coverage limits a systematic three-dimensional account of the entire…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Maciej Bilicki , John A. Peacock , Thomas H. Jarrett , Michelle E. Cluver , Louise Steward

The apparent shapes of spiral galaxies in the 2-Micron All Sky Survey Large Galaxy Atlas are used to constrain the intrinsic shape of their disks. When the distribution of apparent axis ratios is estimated using a nonparametric kernel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara S. Ryden

To develop galaxy-targeting approaches, the gravitational-wave community built a catalog of stellar mass in the local universe based on the 2MASS spectroscopic and photometric redshift surveys. By cleaning and supplementing this catalog,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 J. Biteau

We present a novel 2D flux density model for observed HI emission lines combined with a Bayesian stacking technique to measure the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation below the nominal detection threshold. We simulate a galaxy catalogue, which…

We have measured the intrinsic disk ellipticity for 7 nearby, nearly face-on spiral galaxies by combining Densepak integral-field spectroscopy with I-band imaging from the WIYN telescope. Initially assuming an axisymmetric model, we…

The line-of-sight peculiar velocities are good indicators of the gravitational fluctuation of the density field. Techniques have been developed to extract cosmological information from the peculiar velocities in order to test the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Fei Qin

We present new measures of the evolving scaling relations between stellar mass, luminosity and rotational velocity for a morphologically-inclusive sample of 129 disk-like galaxies with z_AB<22.5 in the redshift range 0.2<z<1.3, based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-27 Sarah H. Miller , Kevin Bundy , Mark Sullivan , Richard S. Ellis , Tommaso Treu

The availability of photometric imaging of several thousand galaxies with the Spitzer Space Telescope enables a mid-infrared calibration of the correlation between luminosity and rotation in spiral galaxies. The most important advantage of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jenny G. Sorce , Helene M. Courtois , R. Brent Tully

We present the B-band Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) of 60 late-type galaxies with redshifts 0.1-1. The galaxies were selected from the FORS Deep Field with a limiting magnitude of R=23. Spatially resolved rotation curves were derived from…

In the last few years, galaxies at redshifts up to z~1 have become accessible for medium-resolved spectroscopy thanks to the new generation of 10m-class telescopes. With kinematic and photometric information on spiral galaxies in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Boehm , B. L. Ziegler , K. J. Fricke , the FDF Team