Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994apj...425..382g&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 425, no. 2, p. 382-391
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12
Cosmology, Galactic Clusters, Galactic Evolution, Many Body Problem, Red Shift, Anisotropy, Dark Matter, Density Distribution, Perturbation, Velocity Distribution
Scientific paper
This paper proposes a number of methods for recovering the true, real-space large-scale density distributions from redshift data sets. On the largest scales, the effects of peculiar velocities is to compress the galaxy clustering along the line of sight and consequently the density gradient in the radial direction is enhanced in comparison with the density gradient perpendicular to the line of sight. We calculate the relation between the density gradients in real and redshift space in the linear regime and show that it is a simple function of the density parameter, Omega. By considering the anisotropy of density gradients in redshift space it is possible, in principle, to obtain information about the value of Omega. Using N-body simulations we examine different methods for correcting the effects of large-scale velocities to obtain the true density distributions. We derive the peculiar velocity field from the redshift data and iterate to place each galaxy at a distance consistent with its measured redshift and its derived velocity. Linear theory, as well as second-order solutions for the peculiar velocity field are tested. The density distributions in low-density regions predicted by both linear theory and second-order theory are similar, and in good agreement with the true density field in the simulation. The use of the second-order corrections improves the prediction of the density field in high-density regions.
Cen Renyue
Gott Richard J. III
Gramann Mirt
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