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The local Universe provides a unique opportunity for testing cosmology and theories of structure formation. To facilitate this opportunity we present a new method for the reconstruction of the quasi-linear matter density and velocity fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Yehuda Hoffman , Edoardo Carlesi , Daniel Pomarède , Hélène M. Courtois , Stefan Gottlöber , Noam I. Libeskind , Jenny G. Sorce , Gustavo Yepes

We show that a regression of unsmoothed peculiar velocity measurements against peculiar velocities predicted from a smoothed galaxy density field leads to a biased estimate of the cosmological density parameter Omega, even when galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andreas A. Berlind , Vijay K. Narayanan , David H. Weinberg , .

We propose a method for estimating the large-scale rms bulk velocity of the cosmic mass field from the transmitted fluxes of Ly$\alpha$ forests. It is based on two linear relationships on large scales: 1) the relation between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Hu Zhan , Li-Zhi Fang

We explore the complementarity of weak lensing and galaxy peculiar velocity measurements to better constrain modifications to General Relativity. We find no evidence for deviations from GR on cosmological scales from a combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-26 Yong-Seon Song , Gong-Bo Zhao , David Bacon , Kazuya Koyama , Robert C Nichol , Levon Pogosian

As tracers of the underlying mass distributions, the peculiar velocities of galaxies are valuable probes of the Universe, allowing us to measure the Hubble constant or to map the large-scale structure and its dynamics. The catalogs of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 C. Duangchan , A. Valade , N. I. Libeskind , M. Steinmetz

Dust extinction and stellar confusion of the Milky Way hinder the detection of galaxies at low Galactic latitude, creating the so-called Zone of Avoidance (ZoA). This has hampered our understanding of the local dynamics, cosmic flow fields…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-14 K. Said , R. C. Kraan-Korteweg , T. H. Jarrett

This is the second in a series of papers in which we compare Tully-Fisher (TF) data from the Mark III Catalog with predicted peculiar velocities based on the IRAS galaxy redshift survey and gravitational instability theory, using a rigorous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jeffrey A. Willick , Michael A. Strauss

Cosmology inference of galaxy clustering at the field level with the EFT likelihood in principle allows for extracting all non-Gaussian information from quasi-linear scales, while robustly marginalizing over any astrophysical uncertainties.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Julia Stadler , Fabian Schmidt , Martin Reinecke

Recently, we constructed the specific solution to the second-order cosmological perturbation theory, around any Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) background filled with dust matter and a positive cosmological constant. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Szymon Sikora , Jan J. Ostrowski

We present scale-dependent measurements of the normalised growth rate of structure $f\sigma_{8}(k, z=0)$ using only the peculiar motions of galaxies. We use data from the 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey velocity sample (6dFGSv) together with a…

Measurements of cosmic flows enable us to test whether cosmological models can accurately describe the evolution of the density field in the nearby Universe. In this paper, we measure the low-order kinematic moments of the cosmic flow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Fei Qin , David Parkinson , Cullan Howlett , Khaled Said

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

We present a detailed analysis of the two-point correlation function, from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). We estimate the redshift-space correlation function, xi(s), from which we measure the redshift-space clustering length,…

The two-point statistics of the cosmic velocity field, measured from galaxy peculiar velocity (PV) surveys, can be used as a dynamical probe to constrain the growth rate of large-scale structures in the universe. Most works use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-07 Motonari Tonegawa , Stephen Appleby , Changbom Park , Sungwook E. Hong , Juhan Kim

We review the use of peculiar velocities of galaxies as a probe of cosmological models. We put particular emphasis on comparison of the peculiar velocity and density fields, focussing on the discrepancies between various recent analyses. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael A. Strauss , Michael Blanton

We compute the bispectrum of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and use it to measure the bias parameter of the galaxies. This parameter quantifies the strength of clustering of the galaxies relative to the mass in the Universe. By…

We apply a new algorithm, called the Unbiased Minimal Variance (hereafter UMV) estimator, to reconstruct the cosmic density and peculiar velocity fields in our local universe from the SEcat catalog of peculiar velocities comprising both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Saleem Zaroubi , Enzo Branchini , Yehuda Hoffman , Luiz N. da Costa

Understanding how galaxies trace the underlying matter density field is essential for characterizing the influence of the large-scale structure on galaxy formation, being therefore a key ingredient in observational cosmology. This…

We present a method for deriving a smoothed estimate of the peculiar velocity field of a set of galaxies with measured circular velocities $\eta\equiv {\rm log} \Delta v$ and apparent magnitudes $m$. The method is based on minimizing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Adi Nusser , Marc Davis

[abridge]Cosmic velocity and tidal fields are important for the understanding of the cosmic web and the environments of galaxies, and can also be used to constrain cosmology. In this paper, we reconstruct these two fields in SDSS volume…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang , Frank C. van den Bosch