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A visualization of three-dimensional structures and cosmic flows is presented using information from the Extragalactic Distance Database V8k redshift catalog and peculiar velocities from the Cosmicflows-1 survey. Structures within a volume…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Daniel Pomarede , Helene Courtois , R. Brent Tully

The Wiener Filter (WF) technique enables the reconstruction of density and velocity fields from observed radial peculiar velocities. This paper aims at identifying the optimal design of peculiar velocity surveys within the WF framework. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Jenny G. Sorce , Yehuda Hoffman , Stefan Gottlöber

Full sky surveys of peculiar velocity are arguably the best way to map the large scale structure out to distances of a few times 100 Mpc/h. Using the largest and most accurate ever catalog of galaxy peculiar velocities "Cosmicflows-2", the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yehuda Hoffman , Helene M. Courtois , R. Brent Tully

Galaxy peculiar velocity data provide important dynamical clues to the structures obscured by the Zone of Avoidance (hereafter, ZOA) with resolution >~ 500km/s. This indirect probe complements the very challenging approach of directly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saleem Zaroubi

We present an alternative, Bayesian method for large-scale reconstruction from observed peculiar velocity data. The method stresses a rigorous treatment of the random errors and it allows extrapolation into poorly sampled regions in real…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Saleem Zaroubi , Yehuda Hoffman , Avishai Dekel

A hierarchical Bayesian model is applied to the Cosmicflows-3 catalog of galaxy distances in order to derive the peculiar velocity field and distribution of matter within $z \sim 0.054$. The model assumes the $\Lambda$CDM model within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 R. Graziani , H. M. Courtois , G. Lavaux , Y. Hoffman , R. B. Tully , Y. Copin , D. Pomarède

We present a new method for recovering the cosmological density, velocity, and potential fields from all-sky redshift catalogues. The method is based on an expansion of the fields in orthogonal radial (Bessel) and angular (spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Karl Fisher , Ofer Lahav , Yehuda Hoffman , Donald Lynden-Bell , Saleem Zaroubi

We present a method for decomposing the cosmological velocity field in a given volume into its divergent component due to the density fluctuations inside the volume, and its tidal component due to the matter distribution outside the volume.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Hoffman , A. Eldar , S. Zaroubi , A. Dekel

We present a refined deep-learning-based method to reconstruct the three-dimensional dark matter density, gravitational potential, and peculiar velocity fields in the Zone of Avoidance (ZOA), a region near the galactic plane with limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Alexandra Dupuy , Donghui Jeong , Sungwook E. Hong , Ho Seong Hwang , Juhan Kim , Hélène M. Courtois

We reconstruct the underlying density field of the 2 degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) for the redshift range 0.035<z<0.200 using the Wiener Filtering method. The Wiener Filter suppresses shot noise and accounts for selection and…

Galaxy distances and derived radial peculiar velocity catalogs constitute valuable datasets to study the dynamics of the Local Universe. However, such catalogs suffer from biases whose effects increase with the distance. Malmquist biases…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jenny G. Sorce

This article publicly releases three-dimensional reconstructions of the local Universe gravitational field below z=0.8 that were computed using the CosmicFlows-4 catalog of 56,000 galaxy distances and its sub-sample of 1,008 type Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 H. M. Courtois , A. Dupuy , D. Guinet , G. Baulieu , F. Ruppin , P. Brenas

[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

The peculiar velocity field of the local Universe provides direct insights into its matter distribution and the underlying theory of gravity, and is essential in cosmological analyses for modelling deviations from the Hubble flow. Numerous…

We present a maximum probability approach to reconstructing spatial maps of the peculiar velocity field at redshifts $z\sim0.1$, where the velocities have been measured from distance indicators (DI) such as $D_n-\sigma$ relations or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Russell Johnston , David Bacon , Luis F. A. Teodoro , Robert C. Nichol , Michael S. Warren , Catherine Cress

Cosmicflows-3 distances and inferred peculiar velocities of galaxies have permitted the reconstruction of the structure of over and under densities within the volume extending to 0.05c. This study focuses on the under dense regions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 R Brent Tully , Daniel Pomarede , Romain Graziani , Helene M Courtois , Yehuda Hoffman , Edward J Shaya

The reconstruction of the large scale velocity field from the grouped Cosmicflows-4 (CF4) database is presented. The lognormal bias of the inferred distances and velocities data is corrected by the Bias Gaussianization correction (BGc)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Yehuda Hoffman , Aurélien Valade , Noam I. Libeskind , Jenny G. Sorce , R. Brent Tully , Simon Pfeifer , Stefan Gottlöber , Daniel Pomaréde

Peculiar velocities thoughout the region of the local supercluster are reconstructed by two different orbit-retracing methods. The requirement of the optimal correlation between the radial components of reconstructed velocities and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roya Mohayaee , R. Brent Tully

We utilise the method of Wiener reconstruction with spherical harmonics and Bessel functions to recover the density and velocity fields from the IRAS 1.2Jy redshift survey. The results are robust to changes in prior parameters and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matthew Webster , Ofer Lahav , Karl Fisher

We generate constrained realizations (CRs) of the density and peculiar velocity fields within $200 \; h^{-1} \, \mathrm{Mpc}$ from the final release of the Two-Micron All-Sky Redshift Survey (2MRS) $-$ the densest all-sky redshift survey to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Robert Lilow , Adi Nusser
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