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We examine the peculiar velocity distribution function of galaxies in cosmological many-body gravitational clustering. Our statistical mechanical approach derives a previous basic assumption and generalizes earlier results to galaxies with…

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We have made measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in six galaxy clusters at z > 0.2 using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Infrared Experiment (SuZIE II) in three frequency bands between 150 and 350 GHz. Simultaneous multi-frequency…

Chandra observations of large samples of galaxy clusters detected in X-rays by ROSAT provide a new, robust determination of the cluster mass functions at low and high redshifts. Statistical and systematic errors are now sufficiently small,…

In an isotropic and homogeneous Hubble expansion, all transverse motion is peculiar. Like the radial peculiar velocities of galaxies, transverse peculiar velocities are a means to trace the density of matter that does not rely on light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Jeremy Darling , Alexandra E. Truebenbach

The evolution of galaxy clusters can be affected by the repulsion described by the cosmological constant. This conclusion is reached within the modified weak-field General Relativity approach where the cosmological constant \Lambda enables…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-14 V. G. Gurzadyan , A. A. Kocharyan , A. Stepanian

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

The meaning of "linear expansion" is explained. Particularly accurate relative distances are compiled and homogenized a) for 246 SNe Ia and 35 clusters with v<30,000 km/s, and b) for relatively nearby galaxies with 176 TRGB and 30 Cepheid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 A. Sandage , B. Reindl , G. A. Tammann

Starting from the observed redshift distribution of a volume limited Abell/ACO cluster sample we use a 2-step procedure to recover their distances and peculiar velocities (assuming linear theory and linear biasing). The resulting 3D dipole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. BRANCHINI , M. PLIONIS

The gravitational slip parameter is an important discriminator between large classes of gravity theories at cosmological and astrophysical scales. In this work we use a combination of simulated information of galaxy cluster mass profiles,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Lorenzo Pizzuti , Ippocratis D. Saltas , Santiago Casas , Luca Amendola , Andrea Biviano

The peculiar velocity distribution of cluster member galaxies provides a powerful tool to directly investigate the gravitational potentials within galaxy clusters and to test the gravity theory on megaparsec scales. We exploit spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 D. Rosselli , F. Marulli , A. Veropalumbo , A. Cimatti , L. Moscardini

Observations of clusters of galaxies that gravitationally lens faint background galaxies can probe the amount and the equation of state, $\5$, of the dark energy (quintessence) in the universe. Provided that the mass profile and the mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Sereno

Galaxy cluster masses, rich with cosmological information, can be estimated from internal dark matter (DM) velocity dispersions, which in turn can be observationally inferred from satellite galaxy velocities. However, galaxies are biased…

We investigate the rms peculiar velocity of galaxy clusters in the Lambda cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) and tau cold dark matter ($\tau$CDM) cosmological models using N-body simulations. Cluster velocities for different cluster masses and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivan Suhhonenko , Mirt Gramann

Typical stars in the Milky Way galaxy have velocities of hundreds of kilometres per second and experience gravitational accelerations of $\sim 10^{-10}$ m s$^{-2}$, resulting in velocity changes of a few centimetres per second over a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-18 Hamish Silverwood , Richard Easther

The peculiar motions of galaxies can be used to infer the distribution of matter in the Universe. It has recently been shown that measurements of the peculiar velocity field indicates an anomalously high bulk flow of galaxies in our local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Edward Macaulay , Hume A. Feldman , Pedro G. Ferreira , Michael J. Hudson , Richard Watkins

The redshift of all cosmological sources drifts by a systematic velocity of order a few m/s over a century due to the deceleration of the Universe. The specific functional dependence of the predicted velocity shift on the source redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Abraham Loeb

Amongst the most popular explanations for dark energy are modified theories of gravity. The galaxy overdensity and peculiar velocity fields help us to constrain the growth rate of structure and distinguish different models of gravity. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-20 Yan Lai , Cullan Howlett , Tamara M. Davis

Astrophysical observations indicate that the ``Local Universe" has a relatively lower matter density ($\Omega_0$) than the predictions of the standard inflation cosmology and the large-scale motions of galaxies which provide a mean mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Xiang-Ping Wu , Zugan Deng , Zhenlong Zou , Li-Zhi Fang , Bo Qin

We use a set of large, high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations to examine the redshift-space distortions of galaxy clustering on scales of order 10-200h^{-1} Mpc. Galaxy redshift surveys currently in progress will, on completion,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 S. J. Hatton , S. Cole

The abundances of groups and clusters of galaxies are expected to have changed substantially since high redshift, with the strength of this evolution dependent upon fundamental cosmological parameters. Upcoming large redshift surveys of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeffrey A. Newman , Christian Marinoni , Alison L. Coil , Marc Davis