No Hubble Bubble in the Local Universe

Details No Hubble Bubble in the Local Universe No Hubble Bubble in the Local Universe

1999-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906362v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 1 tables, 1 figure; uses AAS LaTex; to appear in ApJ Nov 99

Scientific paper

10.1086/307906

Zehavi et al. (1998) have suggested that the Hubble flow within 70/h Mpc may be accelerated by the existence of a void centered on the Local Group. Its underdensity would be ~20 %, which would result in a local Hubble distortion of about 6.5 %. We have combined the peculiar velocity data of two samples of clusters of galaxies, SCI and SCII, to investigate the amplitude of Hubble distortions to 200/h Mpc. Our results are not supportive of that conclusion. The amplitude of a possible distortion in the Hubble flow within 70/h Mpc in the SCI+SCII merged data is 0.010\pm0.022. The largest, and still quite marginal, geocentric deviation from smooth Hubble flow consistent with that data set is a shell with (Delta H)/H =0.027\pm0.023, centered at hd = 101 Mpc and extending over some 30/h Mpc. Our results are thus consistent with a Hubble flow that, on distances in excess of about 50/h Mpc, is remarkably smooth.

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