Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-03-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Poster presentation at the 22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Stanford University, Dec 13-17 2004. (TSRA04-141
Scientific paper
While much of the focus of observational cosmology is on the high redshift universe it is important not to neglect the very local universe as a source of cosmological information. The inner profiles and number counts of low mass halos have provided the biggest stumbling blocks so far for LCDM. These small structures can only be seen nearby where the component of a galaxy's redshift which is due to motions under gravity can be comparable to (or even larger than) its cosmological redshift. We report on a new sample of Tully-Fisher distances (the SFI++) which is being used in combination with publicly available primary distances to model galaxy flows in and around the Local Supercluster. This sample has ~10 times as many tracers as were used for the current best model. Initially a parametric model including infall onto multiple attractors will be used. Such models are not realistic representations of the true velocity field, but provide useful first order corrections. We explore the typical errors in distances from such a flow model and how they vary in different regions of the local supercluster by fitting the same parametric model to mock catalogs derived from a constrained simulation of the volume.
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