Flows on scales of 150 Mpc?

Details Flows on scales of 150 Mpc? Flows on scales of 150 Mpc?

1998-09-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9809199v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1086/311685

We investigate the reality of large-scale streaming on scales of up to 150 Mpc using the peculiar motions of galaxies in three directions. New R-band CCD photometry and spectroscopy for elliptical galaxies is used. The Fundamental Plane distance indicator is calibrated using the Coma cluster and an inhomogeneous Malmquist bias correction is applied. A linear bulk-flow model is fitted to the peculiar velocities in the sample regions and the results do not reflect the bulk flow observed by Lauer and Postman (LP). Accounting for the difference in geometry between the galaxy distribution in the three regions and the LP clustersconfirms the disagreement; assuming a low-density CDM power spectrum, we find that the observed bulk flow of the galaxies in our sample excludes the LP bulk flow at the 99.8% confidence level.

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