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This article explores an update to the cosmography of the local Universe within z=0.1, incorporating galaxy peculiar velocity datasets from the first data releases of WALLABY, FAST, and DESI surveys. The galaxies with peculiar velocities…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Helene M. Courtois , Jeremy Mould , Amber M. Hollinger , Alexandra Dupuy , Chuan-Peng Zhang

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

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

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

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

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

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

We present a measurement of the velocity flow of the local universe relative to the CMB rest frame, based on the Jha, Riess & Kirshner (2007) sample of 133 low redshift type Ia supernovae. At a depth of 4500 km/s we find a dipole amplitude…

Aims: We aim to characterise the multiscale statistical properties of the reconstructed velocity and density fields of the nearby universe, identify possible scaling regimes, quantify intermittency, and assess indications for the transition…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yves Grosdidier , Hélène M. Courtois

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

We develop an effective description of the local cosmic environment, namely, for redshift $z \lesssim 0.1$, to quantify the bias induced by local structure on cosmological observables. Our approach models the metric of the nearby Universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Marco Galoppo , Leonardo Giani , Morag Hills , Aurélien Valade

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…

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

Cosmicflows-2 is a compilation of distances and peculiar velocities for over 8000 galaxies. Numerically the largest contributions come from the luminosity-linewidth correlation for spirals, the TFR, and the related Fundamental Plane…

The convergence of the third order general cosmographic expansion of the luminosity distance is examined using several versions of a semi-realistic model of our local cosmic neighborhood, based on publicly available density and velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 S. M. Koksbang

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

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

With Cosmicflows-4, distances are compiled for 55,877 galaxies gathered into 38,065 groups. Eight methodologies are employed, with the largest numbers coming from the correlations between the photometric and kinematic properties of spiral…

Velocity and density field reconstructions of the volume of the universe within 0.05c derived from the Cosmicflows-3 catalog of galaxy distances has revealed the presence of a filamentary structure extending across ~ 0.11c. The structure,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-10 Daniel Pomarede , R. Brent Tully , Romain Graziani , Helene M. Courtois , Y. Hoffman , Jeremy Lezmy

By correcting the redshift--dependent distances for peculiar motions through a number of peculiar velocity field models, we recover the true distances of a wide, all-sky sample of nearby galaxies (~ 6400 galaxies with velocities cz<5500…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Marinoni , P. Monaco , G. Giuricin , B. Costantini
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