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We present an improved Minimal Variance (MV) method for using a radial peculiar velocity sample to estimate the average of the three-dimensional velocity field over a spherical volume, which leads to an easily interpretable bulk flow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Sarah Peery , Richard Watkins , Hume A. Feldman

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

We analyze the origin of the large-scale bulk flow using the CosmicFlows-4 (CF4) peculiar-velocity catalog. We decompose the observed motions into internal components, generated by mass fluctuations within 200 Mpc/h, and external ones…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Richard Watkins , Hume A. Feldman

For over a decade there have been contradictory claims in the literature about whether the local bulk flow motion of galaxies is consistent or in tension with the $\Lambda$CDM model. While it has become evident that systematics affect bulk…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-27 A. M. Whitford , C. Howlett , T. M. Davis

The $\Lambda$ cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) standard cosmological model is in severe tension with several cosmological observations. Foremost is the Hubble tension, which exceeds $5\sigma$ confidence. Galaxy number counts show the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Sergij Mazurenko , Indranil Banik , Pavel Kroupa , Moritz Haslbauer

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

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

It has been argued recently that the galaxy peculiar velocity field provides evidence of excessive power on scales of $50\hmpc$, which seems to be inconsistent with the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. We discuss several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yin-Zhe Ma , Douglas Scott

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…

Peculiar velocity surveys have non-uniform spatial distributions of tracers, so that the bulk flow estimated from them does not correspond to that of a simple volume such as a sphere. Thus bulk flow estimates are generally not strictly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-24 Richard Watkins , Hume A. Feldman , Michael J. Hudson

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

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 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

To explain the puzzling situation in the observed bulk flows on scales $\sim 150 h^{-1}$ Mpc ($H_0 = 100 h^{-1}$ km sec$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$), we consider the observational behavior of spherically symmetric inhomogeneous cosmological models,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Tomita

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

We study the bulk flow of the local universe using Type Ia supernova data by considering a class of cosmological model which is spatially flat,(FRW) space-times and contains cold dark matter and $Q$ component (QCDM models) of the fluid as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 A. Salehi , M. Yarahmadi , S. Fathi

In this paper we investigate how observational effects could possibly bias cosmological inferences from peculiar velocity measurements. Specifically, we look at how bulk flow measurements are compared with theoretical predictions. Usually…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-15 Per Andersen , Tamara M. Davis , Cullan Howlett

Several observational studies suggest that the local few hundred Mpc around the Local Group are significantly underdense based on source number counts in redshift space across much of the electromagnetic spectrum, particularly in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Richard Stiskalek , Harry Desmond , Indranil Banik

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 low order moments, such as the bulk flow and shear, of the large scale peculiar velocity field are sensitive probes of the matter density fluctuations on very large scales. In practice, however, peculiar velocity surveys are usually…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-15 Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins , Michael J. Hudson
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