Measuring Omega with Galaxy Streaming Velocities

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1999-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904074v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Proceedings of New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics, 6 pages, 2 figures

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The mean pairwise velocity of galaxies has traditionally been estimated from the redshift space galaxy correlation function. This method is notorious for being highly sensitive to the assumed model of the pairwise velocity dispersion. Here we propose an alternative method to estimate the streaming velocity directly from peculiar velocity samples, which contain redshift-independent distances as well as galaxy redshifts. This method can provide an estimate of $\Omega^{0.6}\sigma_8^2$ for a range of $\sigma_8$ where $\Omega$ is the cosmological density parameter, while $\sigma_8$ is the standard normalization for the power spectrum of density fluctuations. We demonstrate how to measure this quantity from realistic catalogues and identify the main sources of bias and errors

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