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Recent observations of Cepheids in the Virgo cluster have bolstered the evidence that supports a Hubble constant in 70-90 km/s/Mpc range. This evidence, by and large, probes the expansion of the Universe within 100 Mpc. We investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xiangdong Shi , Lawrence M. Widrow , L. Jonathan Dursi

The observational behavior of spherically symmetric inhomogeneous cosmological models is studied, which consist of inner and outer homogeneous regions connected by a shell or an intermediate self-similar region. It is assumed that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kenji Tomita

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

According to the perturbed Friedmann model, the difference between Hubble constant measurements in two rest frames, at leading order in velocity, is determined solely by the relative motion of the observers and remains unaffected by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Xiaoyun Shao , Carlos A. P. Bengaly

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 cosmological principle asserting the large-scale uniformity of the Universe is a testable assumption of the standard cosmological model. We explore the constraints on anisotropic expansion provided by measuring directional variation in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 Paula Boubel , Matthew Colless , Khaled Said , Lister Staveley-Smith

Surveys of galaxy distances and radial peculiar velocities can be used to reconstruct the large scale structure. Other than systematic errors in the zero-point calibration of the galaxy distances the main source of uncertainties of such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Yehuda Hoffman , Adi Nusser , Aurelien Valade , Noam I. Libeskind , R. Brent Tully

The large-scale bulk flow implied by the measurements of distances to brightest cluster members within 15,000 km/s by Lauer and Postman has the potential to put strong constraints on, or to even rule out, various models of large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Strauss , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah Ostriker

Analysis of the Pangu N-body simulation validates that the bulk flow of halos follows a Maxwellian distribution which variance is consistent with the prediction of the linear theory of structure formation. We propose that the consistency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ming Li , Jun Pan , Liang Gao , Yipeng Jing , Xiaohu Yang , Xuebin Chi , Longlong Feng , Xi Kang , Weipeng Lin , Guihua Shan , Long Wang , Donghai Zhao , Pengjie Zhang

We characterize the radial and angular variance of the Hubble flow in the COMPOSITE sample of 4534 galaxies, on scales in which much of the flow is in the nonlinear regime. With no cosmological assumptions other than the existence of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 David L. Wiltshire , Peter R. Smale , Teppo Mattsson , Richard Watkins

We give a brief review of recent developments in the study of the large-scale velocity field of galaxies since the international workshop on Cosmic Flows held in July 1999 in Victoria, B.C. Peculiar velocities (PVs) yield a tight and unique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephane Courteau , Avishai Dekel

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

A spherical cosmological model with a local void on scales of $\sim 200$ Mpc and with an inhomogeneous Hubble constant was proposed in recent two papers. This model explains consistently the observed properties of the cosmic bulk flow, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kenji Tomita

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

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

We present here a new parameterization for the bulk motions of galaxies and clusters (in the linear regime) that can be measured statistically from the shape and amplitude of the two-dimensional two-point correlation function. We further…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yong-Seon Song , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Robert C. Nichol , Christopher J. Miller

We present an analysis of the parallel peculiar velocity correlation function using data from the Cosmicflows-4 (CF4) survey. CF4 significantly extends the depth of the peculiar velocity measurements, mitigating the impact of observers on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yuyu Wang , Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins , Xiaohu Yang

Maximum Likelihood estimation of the bulk flow from radial peculiar motions of galaxies, generally assumes a constant velocity field inside the survey volume. The assumption is inconsistent with the definition of the bulk flow as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Adi Nusser

Peculiar velocities of clusters of galaxies can be measured by studying the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) generated by the scattering of the microwave photons by the hot X-ray emitting gas inside clusters. While for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-26 A. Kashlinsky , F. Atrio-Barandela , D. Kocevski , H. Ebeling

We investigate the reality of large-scale streaming on scales of up to 150 Mpc using the peculiar motions of galaxies in three directions. New R-band CCD photometry and spectroscopy for elliptical galaxies is used. The Fundamental Plane…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. R. Müller , W. Freudling , R. Watkins , G. Wegner