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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 an improved POTENT method for reconstructing the velocity and mass density fields from radial peculiar velocities, test it with mock catalogs, and apply it to the Mark III Catalog. Method improvments: (a) inhomogeneous Malmquist…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Dekel , A. Eldar , T. Kolatt , A. Yahil , J. A. Willick , S. M. Faber , S. Courteau , D. Burstein

When measuring the value of the Hubble parameter, $H_0$, it is necessary to know the recession velocity free of the effects of peculiar velocities. In this work, we study different models of peculiar velocity in the local Universe. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Supranta S. Boruah , Michael J. Hudson , Guilhem Lavaux

Scatter in distance indicators introduces two conceptually distinct systematic biases when reconstructing peculiar velocity fields from redshifts and distances. The first is distance Malmquist bias (dMB) that affects individual distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Adi Nusser

Reconstructing the large scale density and velocity fields from surveys of galaxy distances, is a major challenge for cosmography. The data is very noisy and sparse. Estimated distances, and thereby peculiar velocities, are strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Aurélien Valade , Noam I Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman , Simon Pfeifer

Methods for inferring the velocity field from the peculiar velocity data are described and applied to old and newer data. Inhomogeneous Malmquist bias and ways to avoid it are discussed and utilized. We infer that these biases are probably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Albert Stebbins

The peculiar velocities of dark matter halos are crucial to study many issues in cosmology and galaxy evolution. In this study, by using the state-of-the-art deep learning technique, a UNet-based neural network, we propose to reconstruct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Ziyong Wu , Liang Xiao , Xu Xiao , Jie Wang , Xi Kang , Yang Wang , Xin Wang , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

Reconstructing the initial conditions of the Universe from late-time observations has the potential to optimally extract cosmological information. Due to the high dimensionality of the parameter space, a differentiable forward model is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Adrian E. Bayer , Chirag Modi , Simone Ferraro

We explore systematic biases in the identification of dark matter in future direct detection experiments and compare the reconstructed dark matter properties when assuming a self-consistent dark matter distribution function and the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-27 Miguel Pato , Louis E. Strigari , Roberto Trotta , Gianfranco Bertone

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…

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

We characterize the peculiar velocity field of the local large-scale structure reconstructed from the $2M++$ survey, by treating it as a fluid, extracting the divergence via different approximations over a range pf averaged scales. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Erick Pastén , Sebastián Gálvez , Víctor Cárdenas

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

The peculiar velocity field offers a unique way to probe dark matter density field on large scales at low redshifts. In this work, we have compiled a new sample of 465 peculiar velocities from low redshift $(z < 0.067)$ Type Ia supernovae.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-05 Supranta S. Boruah , Michael J. Hudson , Guilhem Lavaux

Accurate analyses of present and next-generation galaxy surveys require new ways to handle effects of non-linear gravitational structure formation in data. To address these needs we present an extension of our previously developed algorithm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

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

We propose a UNet-based deep learning model to reconstruct the real-space dark matter (DM) velocity field from the redshift-space distribution of sparse DM halos. Using various statistical measures, we show that the reconstructed velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Xu Xiao , Jiacheng Ding , XiaoLin Luo , Sun Ke Lan , Liang Xiao , Shuai Liu , Xin Wang , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

We present a Bayesian reconstruction algorithm to generate unbiased samples of the underlying dark matter field from halo catalogues. Our new contribution consists of implementing a non-Poisson likelihood including a deterministic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Metin Ata , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Volker Müller

We present a new reconstruction of the mass density and the peculiar velocity fields in the nearby universe using recent measurements of Tully-Fisher distances for a sample of late spirals. We find significant differences between our…

Lagrangian reconstruction of large-scale peculiar velocity fields can be strongly affected by observational biases. We develop a thorough analysis of these systematic effects by relying on specially selected mock catalogues. For the purpose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Lavaux , R. Mohayaee , S. Colombi , R. B. Tully , F. Bernardeau , J. Silk
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