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The peculiar motion of the host galaxies introduces bias in estimating cosmological parameters from supernova data. The coherent component of the peculiar motion is usually corrected for using velocity field reconstruction based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Ujjwal Upadhyay , Tarun Deep Saini , Shiv K. Sethi

A reconstruction method for recovering the initial conditions of the Universe starting from the present galaxy distribution is presented which guarantees uniqueness of solutions. We show how our method can be used to obtain the peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roya Mohayaee , Brent Tully , Uriel Frisch

We explore the complementarity of weak lensing and galaxy peculiar velocity measurements to better constrain modifications to General Relativity. We find no evidence for deviations from GR on cosmological scales from a combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-26 Yong-Seon Song , Gong-Bo Zhao , David Bacon , Kazuya Koyama , Robert C Nichol , Levon Pogosian

We explore the potential of cross-correlating galaxies and peculiar velocities on non-linear scales to enhance cosmological constraints. Leveraging the \textsc{AbacusSummit} simulation suite and the halo occupation distribution (HOD)…

This letter presents a new approach using the cosmic peculiar velocity field to characterize the morphology and size of large scale structures in the local Universe. The algorithm developed uses the three-dimensional peculiar velocity field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 A. Dupuy , H. M. Courtois , F. Dupont , F. Denis , R. Graziani , Y. Copin , D. Pomarede , N. Libeskind , E. Carlesi , B. Tully , D. Guinet

We use an all--sky, complete sample of nearby galaxies, extracted from the LEDA data base, to map the optical galaxy density field in the nearby universe. In order to determine this field, we correct the redshift--dependent distances by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Marinoni , G. Giuricin , B. Costantini , P. Monaco

Future microwave sky surveys will have the sensitivity to detect the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal from moving galaxy clusters, thus providing a direct measurement of their line-of-sight peculiar velocity. We show that cluster peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Suman Bhattacharya , Arthur Kosowsky

The peculiar velocity field of the local Universe provides direct insights into its matter distribution and the underlying theory of gravity, and is essential in cosmological analyses for modelling deviations from the Hubble flow. Numerous…

Measurements of the peculiar velocities of large samples of galaxies enable new tests of the standard cosmological model, including determination of the growth rate of cosmic structure that encodes gravitational physics. With the size of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-19 Chris Blake , Ryan J. Turner

We present an improved method for calculating the parallel and perpendicular velocity correlation functions directly from peculiar velocity surveys using weighted maximum-likelihood estimators. A central feature of the new method is the use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yuyu Wang , Sarah Peery , Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins

Computational capability often falls short when confronted with massive data, posing a common challenge in establishing a statistical model or statistical inference method dealing with big data. While subsampling techniques have been…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-31 Yixiao Ruan , Zan Li , Zhaohui Li , Dennis K. J. Lin , Qingpei Hu , Dan Yu

Galaxy peculiar velocities provide an integral source of cosmological information that can be harnessed to measure the growth rate of large scale structure and constrain possible extensions to General Relativity. In this work, we present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ryan J. Turner , Chris Blake , Rossana Ruggeri

The volume of data and the velocity with which it is being generated by com- putational experiments on high performance computing (HPC) systems is quickly outpacing our ability to effectively store this information in its full fidelity.…

Computation · Statistics 2014-07-14 Henry Scharf , Ryan Elmore , Kenny Gruchalla

It has been recently shown that a powerful way to constrain cosmological parameters from galaxy redshift surveys is to train graph neural networks to perform field-level likelihood-free inference without imposing cuts on scale. In…

The estimation and analysis of large-scale bulk flow moments of peculiar velocity surveys is complicated by non-spherical survey geometry, the non-uniform sampling of the matter velocity field by the survey objects and the typically large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-28 Shankar Agarwal , Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins

Cosmic voids contain higher-order cosmological information and are of interest for astroparticle physics. Finding genuine matter underdensities in sparse galaxy surveys is, however, an underconstrained problem. Traditional void finding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Leander Thiele

In this contribution we review the large body of work carried out over the past two decades to probe the dark matter in the local universe using redshift survey and peculiar velocity data. While redshift surveys have evolved rapidly over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. da Costa

We present an analysis of the two-point peculiar velocity correlation function using data from the CosmicFlows catalogues. The Millennium and MultiDark Planck 2 N-body simulations are used to estimate cosmic variance and uncertainties due…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-24 Yuyu Wang , Christopher Rooney , Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins

We study the inverse problem of deducing the dynamical characteristics (such as the potential field) of large systems from kinematic observations. We show that, for a class of steady-state systems, the solution is unique even with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-14 Mikko Kaasalainen

It is shown that the average magnitude - redshift diagram for a magnitude-limited sample of galaxies can be effectively used for mapping galaxy velocity field. This new approach is quantitatively introduced and applied to the CfA, ESO/LV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Jacek Choloniewski