Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-1998
Publication Title
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Department
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
We present a comparison between the peculiar velocity fields measured from a recently completed I-band Tully-Fisher survey of field spirals (SFI) and that derived from the IRAS 1.2-Jy redshift survey galaxy distribution. The analysis is based on the expansion of these data in redshift space using smooth orthonormal functions, and is performed using low- and high-resolution expansions, with an effective smoothing scale which increases almost linearly with redshift. The effective smoothing scales at 3000 km s−1 are 1500 and 1000 km s−1 for the low- and high-resolution filters. The agreement between the high- and low-resolution SFI velocity maps is excellent. The general features in the filtered SFI and IRAS velocity fields agree remarkably well within 6000 km s−1. This good agreement between the fields allows us to determine the parameter β = Ω0.6 /b, where Ω is the cosmological density parameter, and b is the linear biasing factor. From a likelihood analysis on the SFI and IRAS modes we find that β = 0.6 ± 0.1, independently of the resolution of the modal expansion. For this value of β, the residual fields for the two filters show no systematic variations within 6000 km s−1. Most remarkable is the lack of any coherent, redshift-dependent dipole flow in the residual field.
DOI
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01802.x
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
da Costa, L. N.; Nusser, A.; Freudling, W.; Giovanelli, R.; Haynes, M. P.; Salzer, J J.; and Wegner, G., "Comparison of the SFI Peculiar Velocities with the IRAS 1.2-Jy Gravity Field" (1998). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1876.
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