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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 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

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

We present a new catalogue of distances and peculiar velocities (PVs) of $34,059$ early-type galaxies derived from Fundamental Plane (FP) measurements using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This $7016\,\mathrm{deg}^{2}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Cullan Howlett , Khaled Said , John R. Lucey , Matthew Colless , Fei Qin , Yan Lai , R. Brent Tully , Tamara M. Davis

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

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

We present a version of the Fourier Bessel method first introduced by Fisher et al (1994) and Zaroubi et al (1994) with two extensions: (a) we amend the formalism to allow a generic galaxy weight which can be constant rather than the more…

We present the first simultaneous analysis of the galaxy overdensity and peculiar velocity fields by modelling their cross-covariance. We apply our new maximum-likelihood approach to data from the 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS), which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Caitlin Adams , Chris Blake

The problem of the reconstruction of the large scale density and velocity fields from peculiar velocities surveys is addressed here within a Bayesian framework by means of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling. The HAmiltonian Monte carlo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Aurélien Valade , Yehuda Hoffman , Noam I Libeskind , Romain Graziani

We study the large-scale velocity fields traced by galaxy clusters in numerical simulations of a box of side 960 $h^{-1}$ Mpc, and compare them with available data on real clusters. In order to test the reliability of the simulations, which…

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

Using the Tully-Fisher relation, we derive peculiar velocities for the 2MASS Tully-Fisher Survey and describe the velocity field of the nearby Universe. We use adaptive kernel smoothing to map the velocity field, and compare it to…

We present scale-dependent measurements of the normalised growth rate of structure $f\sigma_{8}(k, z=0)$ using only the peculiar motions of galaxies. We use data from the 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey velocity sample (6dFGSv) together with a…

Cosmological parameters can be measured by comparing peculiar velocities with those predicted from a galaxy density field. Previous work has tested the accuracy of this approach with N-body simulations, but generally on idealised mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Amber M. Hollinger , Michael J. Hudson

(abridged) We perform a reconstruction of the cosmological large scale flows in the nearby Universe using two complementary observational sets. The first, the SFI++ sample of Tully-Fisher (TF) measurements of galaxies, provides a direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Marc Davis , Adi Nusser , Karen Masters , Christopher Springob , John P. Huchra , Gerard Lemson

Comparison of galaxy flows with those predicted from the local galaxy distribution ended as an active field after two analyses came to vastly different conclusions 25 years ago, but that was due to faulty data. All the old results are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Marc Davis , Adi Nusser

We analyse the large--scale velocity field obtained by N--body simulations of cold dark matter (CDM) models with non--Gaussian primordial density fluctuations, considering models with both positive and negative primordial skewness in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Lucchin , S. Matarrese , A. Messina , L. Moscardini , G. Tormen

Observed galaxy luminosities (derived from redshifts) hold information on the large-scale peculiar velocity field in the form of spatially correlated scatter, which allows for bounds on bulk flows and the growth rate of matter density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-04 Martin Feix , Enzo Branchini , Adi Nusser

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