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To study galactic motions on the largest available scales, we require bulk flow moments whose window functions have as narrow a peak as possible and having as small an amplitude as possible outside the peak. Typically the moments found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-13 Hume A. Feldman , Michael J. Hudson , Richard Watkins

This paper presents an analysis of the local peculiar velocity field based on the Wiener Filter reconstruction method. We used our currently available catalog of distance measurements containing 1,797 galaxies within 3000 km/s:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Helene M. Courtois , Yehuda Hoffman , R. Brent Tully , Stefan Gottlober

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

A scalar-tensor bimetric gravity model of early universe cosmology is reviewed. The metric frame with a variable speed of light (VSL) and a constant speed of gravitational waves is used to describe a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. W. Moffat

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

As an alternative explanation for the cosmic acceleration, $f(R)$ theories of gravity can predict an almost identical expansion history to standard $\Lambda$CDM, yet make very different predictions for the growth of cosmological structures.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-02 Jacob Seiler , David Parkinson

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 velocity measurements are the only tool available in the low-redshift Universe for mapping the large-scale distribution of matter and can thus be used to constrain cosmology. Using redshifts from the 2M++ redshift compilation, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jonathan Carrick , Stephen J. Turnbull , Guilhem Lavaux , Michael J. Hudson

We derive estimates for the cosmological bulk flow from the SFI++ Tully-Fisher (TF) catalog. For a sphere of radius $40 \hmpc$ centered on the MW, we derive a bulk flow of $333 \pm 38\kms $ towards Galactic $ (l,b)=(276^\circ,14^\circ)$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Adi Nusser , Marc Davis

We create a combined sample of 10,904 late and early-type galaxies from the 2MTF and 6dFGSv surveys in order to accurately measure bulk flow in the local Universe. Galaxies and groups of galaxies common between the two surveys are used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-22 Fei Qin , Cullan Howlett , Lister Staveley-Smith , Tao Hong

We review and compare two different CMB dipole estimators discussed in the literature, and assess their performances through Monte Carlo simulations. The first method amounts to simple template regression with partial sky data, while the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 H. Thommesen , K. J. Andersen , R. Aurlien , R. Banerji , M. Brilenkov , H. K. Eriksen , U. Fuskeland , M. Galloway , L. M. Mocanu , T. L. Svalheim , I. K. Wehus

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 large bulk flow, which is in tension with the Lambda Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model, has been observed. In this paper, we provide a physically plausible explanation of this bulk flow, based on the assumption that some…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-19 Yin-Zhe Ma , Christopher Gordon , Hume A. Feldman

Extragalactic foregrounds in cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations are both a source of cosmological and astrophysical information and a nuisance to the CMB. Effective field-level modeling that captures their non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 M. Mebratu , W. L. K. Wu

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 measure the bulk flow of the local Universe using the 6dF Galaxy Survey peculiar velocity sample (6dFGSv), the largest and most homogeneous peculiar velocity sample to date. 6dFGSv is a Fundamental Plane sample of $\sim10^4$ peculiar…

Using the Tully-Fisher relation, we derive peculiar velocities for the 2MASS Tully-Fisher Survey and describe the velocity field of the nearby Universe. We use adaptive kernel smoothing to map the velocity field, and compare it to…

Astronomical observations showed that there may exist a bulk flow with peculiar velocities in the universe, which contradicts with the (\Lambda)CDM model. The bulk flow reveals that the observational universe is anisotropic at large scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-07 Zhe Chang , Ming-Hua Li , Sai Wang

This study investigates the evolution of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmological models within the $f(Q)$ gravity framework, utilizing a specific $f(Q)$ formulation and a novel Hubble parameter $H(z)$ parameterization to probe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Lokesh Kumar Sharma , Suresh Parekh , Anil Kumar Yadav

Galaxy peculiar velocities are excellent cosmological probes provided that biases inherent to their measurements are contained before any study. This paper proposes a new algorithm based on an object point process model whose probability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Jenny G. Sorce , Radu S. Stoica , Elmo Tempel