Peculiar Velocity Reconstruction with Fast Action Method: Tests on Mock Redshift Surveys

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2001-10-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110618v3

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 335 (2002) 53

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

26 pages, 16 figures. Figures 1,2,3,4,5,7,11,12 and 16 are also included as separate gif files. Added 2 new sections(5.3 and 6

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05611.x

We present extensive tests of the Fast Action Method (FAM) for recovering the past orbits of mass tracers in an expanding universe from their redshift-space coordinates at the present epoch. The tests focus on the reconstruction of present-day peculiar velocities using mock catalogs extracted from high resolution $N$-body simulations. The method allows for a self-consistent treatment of redshift-space distortions by direct minimization of a modified action for a cosmological gravitating system. When applied to ideal, volume limited catalogs, FAM recovers unbiased peculiar velocities with a 1-D, 1\sigma error of ~220 km/s, if velocities are smoothed on a scale of 5 Mpc/h. Alternatively, when no smoothing is applied, FAM predicts nearly unbiased velocities for objects residing outside the highest density regions. In this second case the 1\sigma$error decreases to a level of ~150 km/s. The correlation properties of the peculiar velocity fields are also correctly recovered on scales larger than 5 Mpc/h. Similar results are obtained when FAM is applied to flux limited catalogs mimicking the IRAS PSCz survey. In this case FAM reconstructs peculiar velocities with similar intrinsic random errors, while velocity-velocity correlation properties are well reproduced beyond scales of ~8 Mpc/h. We also show that FAM provides better velocity predictions than other, competing methods based on linear theory or Zel'dovich approximation. These results indicate that FAM can be successfully applied to presently available galaxy redshift surveys such as IRAS PSCz.

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