Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-11-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
MNRAS in press, 9 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables
Scientific paper
Peculiar velocities are one of the only probes of very large-scale mass density fluctuations in the nearby Universe. We present new "minimal variance" bulk flow measurements based upon the "First Amendment" compilation of 245 Type Ia supernovae (SNe) peculiar velocities and find a bulk flow of 249 +/- 76 km/s in the direction l= 319 +/- 18 deg, b = 7 +/- 14 deg. The SNe bulk flow is consistent with the expectations of \Lambda CDM. However, it is also marginally consistent with the bulk flow of a larger compilation of non-SNe peculiar velocities (Watkins, Feldman, & Hudson 2009). By comparing the SNe peculiar velocities to predictions of the IRAS Point Source Catalog Redshift survey (PSCz) galaxy density field, we find \Omega_{m}^{0.55} \sigma_{8,lin} = 0.40 +/- 0.07, which is in agreement with \Lambda CDM. However, we also show that the PSCz density field fails to account for 150 +/- 43 km/s of the SNe bulk motion.
Feldman Hume A.
Hicken Malcolm
Hudson Michael J.
Kirshner Robert P.
Turnbull Stephen J.
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