The Velocity Field Predicted by the Optical Redshift Survey

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1998-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802173v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Scientific paper

10.1086/306392

We have used the Optical Redshift Survey (ORS; Santiago et al. 1995) to construct the gravity field due to fluctuations in the galaxy density field out to distances of 8000 km/s. At large scales where linear theory applies, the comparison of this gravity field with the observed peculiar velocity field offers a powerful cosmological probe, because the predicted flow field is proportional to the parameter Omega^{0.6}/b, where Omega is the matter density and b is the bias of the galaxy distribution. The more densely sampled ORS gravity field, to excellent approximation, matches that of the earlier IRAS 1.2-Jy redshift survey (Fisher et al. 1995), provided beta is reduced by a factor b(opt)/b(IRAS)=1.4. Apart from this scaling, the most significant difference between the ORS and IRAS fields is induced by differing estimates of the over-density of the Virgo cluster. Neither of these gravity fields is consistent with the peculiar velocity field constructed from the full Mark III (Willick et al. 1997) sample. We find that a simple but plausible non-linear bias algorithm for the galaxy distribution relative to the mass has a negligible effect on the derived fields. We conclude that the substitution of optical for IRAS catalogues cannot alone resolve the discrepancies between the IRAS gravity field and the Mark III peculiar velocity field.

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