Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-12-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, uuencoded compressed tarred postscript file uncluding text and 3 figures. Accepted in ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/309993
Using a dynamical 3-D reconstruction procedure we estimate the peculiar velocities of $R\ge0$ Abell/ACO galaxy clusters from their measured redshift within 25000 km/sec. The reconstruction algorithm relies on the linear gravitational instability hypothesis, assumes linear biasing and requires an input value of the cluster $\beta$-parameter ($\beta_c \equiv \Omega_{\circ}^{0.6}/b_c$), which we estimated in Branchini \& Plionis (1995) to be $\beta_c\simeq 0.21$. The resulting cluster velocity field is dominated by a large scale streaming motion along the Perseus Pisces--Great Attractor base-line directed towards the Shapley concentration, in qualitative agreement with the galaxy velocity field on smaller scales. Fitting the predicted cluster peculiar velocities to a dipole term, in the local group frame and within a distance of $\sim 18000$ km/sec, we recover extremely well both the local group velocity and direction, in disagreement with the Lauer \& Postman (1994) observation. However, we find a $\sim 6\%$ probability that their observed velocity field could be a realization of our corresponding one, if the latter is convolved with their large distance dependent errors. Our predicted cluster bulk velocity amplitude agrees well with that deduced by the POTENT and the da Costa et al. (1995) analyses of observed galaxy motions at $\sim 5000 - 6000$ km/sec; it decreases thereafter while at the Lauer \& Postman limiting depth ($\sim 15000$ km/sec) its amplitude is $\sim 150$ km/sec, in comfortable agreement with most cosmological models.
Branchini Enzo
Plionis Manolis
Sciama Dennis W.
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