Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-01-06
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 365 (2006) 1191-1202
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
LaTeX, 11 pages, 10 figures. Changed to match journal paper. Useful pedagogic appendix added for calculations of biased veloci
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09804.x
Upcoming surveys for galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect are potentially sensitive enough to create a peculiar velocity catalog. The statistics of these peculiar velocities are sensitive to cosmological parameters. We develop a method to explore parameter space using N-body simulations in order to quantify dark matter halo velocity statistics which will be useful for cluster peculiar velocity observations. We show that mass selection bias from a kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich velocity catalog forecasts rms peculiar velocities with a much more complicated Omega_m dependency than suggested by linear theory. In addition, we show that both two-point functions for velocities disagree with linear theory predictions out to separations of approx. 40 Mpc/h. A pedagogical appendix is included developing linear theory notation with respect to the two-point peculiar velocity functions.
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