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We constructed a Bayesian hyper-parameter statistical method to quantify the difference between predicted velocities derived from the observed galaxy distribution in the \textit{IRAS}-PSC$z$ redshift survey and peculiar velocities measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yin-Zhe Ma , Enzo Branchini , Douglas Scott

We only see a small fraction of the matter in the universe, but the rest gives itself away by the impact of its gravity. The distortions from pure Hubble flow (or peculiar velocities) that this matter creates have the potential to be a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Karen L. Masters

Measurements of the peculiar velocities of large samples of galaxies enable new tests of the standard cosmological model, including determination of the growth rate of cosmic structure that encodes gravitational physics. With the size of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-19 Chris Blake , Ryan J. Turner

In this thesis, we use the motion of the Local Group of galaxies (LG) through the Universe to measure the cosmological parameter of non-relativistic matter density, Omega_m. For that purpose, we compare the peculiar velocity of the LG with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-10 Maciej Bilicki

A maximum-likelihood method, tested as an unbiased estimator from numerical simulations, is used to estimate cosmic bulk flow from peculiar velocity surveys. The likelihood function is applied to four observational catalogues (ENEAR, SFI++,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yin-Zhe Ma , Jun Pan

The Cosmicflows database of galaxy distances that in the 2nd edition contained 8,188 entries is now expanded to 17,669 entries. The major additions are 2,257 distances that we have derived from the correlation between galaxy rotation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 R. Brent Tully , Helene M. Courtois , Jenny G. Sorce

We present an analysis of the ENEAR sample of peculiar velocities of elliptical galaxies, obtained with D_n-\sigma distances. We use the velocity correlation function to analyze the statistics of the field-object's velocities, while the…

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

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

The redshifts of ~250000 galaxies are used to study the Local Hole and its associated peculiar velocities. The sample, compiled from 6dFGS and SDSS provides wide sky coverage to a depth of ~300h-1Mpc. We have therefore examined K and r…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-07 J. R. Whitbourn , T. Shanks

(context) Different cosmological data are consistent with an accelerated expansion produced by an exotic matter-energy component, dubbed "dark-energy''. A cosmological constant is a possibility since it satisfies most of the observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Sébastien Peirani , José Antonio De Freitas Pacheco

I review the recent developments in the analysis of cosmic flow data, in particular, latest results of bulk flow measurements, comparison between redshift and peculiar velocity catalogs with emphasis on the measured value of the $\beta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saleem Zaroubi

Reviews observational situation in the measurement of peculiar velocities in the local universe. Emphasis is placed on such topics as: Do spirals and ellipticals yield the same peculiar velocity field? What is the cluster velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Riccardo Giovanelli

Tools are provided at the Extragalactic Distance Database website that provide relationships between the distances and velocities of galaxies based on smoothed versions of the velocity fields derived by the Cosmicflows program.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-27 Ehsan Kourkchi , Helene M. Courtois , Romain Graziani , Yehuda Hoffman , Daniel Pomarede , Edward J. Shaya , R. Brent Tully

The Tully-Fisher (Tully and Fisher 1977; TF) relation is applied to obtain peculiar velocities of field spirals galaxies and to calculate dipoles of the peculiar velocity field to cz ~ 8000 km/s. The field galaxy sample is spatially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Giovanelli , M. Haynes , W. Freudling , L. da Costa , J. Salzer , G. Wegner

Using the 2MASS near-infrared photometry and high signal-to-noise HI 21-cm data from the Arecibo, Green Bank, Nancay, and Parkes telescopes, we calculate the redshift-independent distances and peculiar velocities of 2,018 bright inclined…

This work investigates the impact of cosmic flows and density perturbations on Hubble constant $H_0$ measurements using nonlinear phase-space reconstructions of the Local Universe (LU). In particular, we rely on 25 constrained N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Steffen Hess , Francisco-Shu Kitaura

We have obtained new Tully-Fisher (TF) peculiar velocity measurements for 52 Abell galaxy clusters distributed throughout the sky between ~ 50 and 200 Mpc/h.The measurements are based on I band photometry and optical rotation curves for a…

We present a new model for the cross-covariance between galaxy redshift-space distortions and peculiar velocities. We combine this with the auto-covariance models of both probes in a fully self-consistent, maximum-likelihood method,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Caitlin Adams , Chris Blake