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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

Cosmic bulk flow--the volume-averaged peculiar velocity of matter--serves as a fundamental test of the Cosmological Principle when probed on gigaparsec (Gpc) scales. Historically, however, measurements of cosmic bulk flow have been limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Suroor Seher Gandhi , Matthew C. Johnson , Jordan Krywonos , Michael J. Hudson

We present an analysis comparing the bulk--flow measurements for six recent peculiar velocity surveys, namely, ENEAR, SFI, RFGC, SBF and the Mark III singles and group catalogs. We study whether the direction of the bulk--flow estimates are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 Devdeep Sarkar , Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins

We develop a Maximum Likelihood estimator (MLE) to measure the masses of galaxy clusters through the impact of gravitational lensing on the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We show that, at…

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

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

I address the following issues: All bulk velocity measurements (but one) are consistent with our standard gravitational instability theory. New accurate data and reconstruction methods allow high-resolution dynamical analysis nearby,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Avishai Dekel

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

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

We follow a formalism presented by Kaiser to calculate the variance of bulk flows in large scale surveys. We apply the formalism to a mock survey of Abell clusters \'a la Lauer \& Postman and find the variance in the expected bulk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins

In recent years, the possibility of measuring the cosmological constant $\Omega_\Lambda$ through the application of the Alcock-Paczynski test to the Lyman Alpha (Ly$\alpha$) forest has been suggested (McDonald et al. 1999; Hui et al. 1999).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wen-Ching Lin , Michael Norman

The bulk flow is a volume average of the peculiar velocities and a useful probe of the mass distribution on large scales. The gravitational instability model views the bulk flow as a potential flow that obeys a Maxwellian Distribution. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-31 Abhinav Kumar , Yuyu Wang , Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins

Lauer \& Postman (LP) observe that all Abell clusters with redshifts less than 15,000\kms\ appear to be participating in a bulk flow of 689 km s$^{-1}$ with respect to the Cosmic Microwave Background. We find this result difficult to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 M. A. Strauss , R. Cen , J. P. Ostriker , T. R. Lauer , M. Postman

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

We present a simple method for measuring cosmological bulk flows from large redshift surveys, based on the apparent dimming or brightening of galaxies due to their peculiar motion. It is aimed at estimating bulk flows of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Adi Nusser , Enzo Branchini , Marc Davis

We study the problem of learning multivariate log-concave densities with respect to a global loss function. We obtain the first upper bound on the sample complexity of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for a log-concave density on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Timothy Carpenter , Ilias Diakonikolas , Anastasios Sidiropoulos , Alistair Stewart

The assumption of log-concavity is a flexible and appealing nonparametric shape constraint in distribution modelling. In this work, we study the log-concave maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of a probability mass function (pmf). We show…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-17 Fadoua Balabdaoui , Hanna Jankowski , Kaspar Rufibach , Marios Pavlides

We evaluate the local variance of the Hubble Constant $H_0$ with low-z Type Ia Supernovae (SNe). Our analyses are performed using a hemispherical comparison method in order to test whether taking the bulk flow motion into account can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 C. A. P. Bengaly

Flow Matching (FM) models achieve remarkable results in generative tasks. Building upon diffusion models, FM's simulation-free training paradigm enables simplicity and efficiency but introduces a train-inference gap: model outputs cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhaoyi Li , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li , Shihua Li

We present analysis of local large scale flows using the Surface Brightness Fluctuation (SBF) Survey for the distances to 300 early-type galaxies. Our models of the distribution function of mean velocity and velocity dispersion at each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 John L. Tonry , John P. Blakeslee , Edward A. Ajhar , Alan Dressler