Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-06-05
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 320 (2001) L21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04107.x
We present a comparison between the peculiar velocity field measured from the ENEAR all-sky $D_n-\sigma$ catalog and that derived from the galaxy distribution of the IRAS PSCz redshift survey. The analysis is based on a modal expansion of these data in redshift space by means of spherical harmonics and Bessel functions. The effective smoothing scale of the expansion is almost linear with redshift reaching 1500km/s at 3000km/s. The general flow patterns in the filtered ENEAR and PSCz velocity fields agree well within 6000km/s, assuming a linear biasing relation between the mass and the PSCz galaxies. The comparison allows us to determine the parameter $\beta=\Omega^{0.6}/b$, where $\Omega$ is the cosmological density parameter and $b$ is the linear biasing factor. A likelihood analysis of the ENEAR and PSCz modes yields $\beta=0.5 +- 0.1$, in good agreement with values obtained from Tully-Fisher surveys.
Alonso Maria Victoria
Bernardi Mariangela
Branchini Enzo
da Costa Luiz Nicolaci
Nusser Adi
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