Comparing the SFI peculiar velocities with the PSCz gravity field:: a VELMOD analysis

被引:32
作者
Branchini, E
Freudling, W
Da Costa, LN
Frenk, CS
Giovanelli, R
Haynes, MP
Salzer, JJ
Wegner, G
Zehavi, I
机构
[1] Univ Groningen, Kapteyn Inst, NL-9700 Groningen, Netherlands
[2] Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Fis, I-00146 Rome, Italy
[3] Space Telescope European Coordinating Facil, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[4] European So Observ, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[5] Univ Durham, Dept Phys, Durham DH1 3LE, England
[6] Cornell Univ, Ctr Radiophys & Space Res, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[7] Cornell Univ, Natl Astron & Ionosphere Ctr, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[8] Wesleyan Univ, Dept Astron, Middletown, CT 06457 USA
[9] Dartmouth Coll, Dept Phys & Astron, Hanover, NH 03755 USA
[10] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, NASA, Fermilab Astrophys Grp, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
galaxies : clusters : general; galaxies : distances and redshifts; cosmology : observations; cosmology : theory; large-scale structure of Universe;
D O I
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04671.x
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We compare the peculiar velocities derived from the I-band Tully-Fisher (TF) relation for 989 field spiral galaxies in the SFI catalogue with the predicted velocity field derived from the IRAS PSCz galaxy redshift survey. We assume linear gravitational instability theory and apply the maximum likelihood technique, VELMOD to SFI galaxies within a redshift cz(LG) = 6000 km s(-1). The resulting calibration of the TF relation is consistent with a previous, independent calibration for a similar sample of spirals residing in clusters. Our analysis provides an accurate estimate of the quantity beta (1) = Omega (0.6)(m)/b(1), where b(1) is the linear biasing parameter for IRAS galaxies. Using the forward TF relation and smoothing the predicted velocity field with a Gaussian filter of radius 300 km s(-1), we obtain beta (1) = 0.42 +/- 0.04 (1 sigma, uncertainty). This value, as well as other parameters in the fit, are robust to varying the smoothing radius to 500 km s(-1) and splitting the sample into spherical shells in redshift space. The one exception is the small-scale velocity dispersion, sigma (v), which varies from similar to 200 km s(-1) (within cz(LG) = 4000 km s(-1)) to similar to 500 km s(-1) at larger distance. For beta (1) similar or equal to 0.42, the residuals between the TF data and the PSCz gravity field are uncorrelated, indicating that the model provides a good fit to the data. More generally, a chi (2) statistic indicates that the PSCz model velocity field provides an acceptable (3 sigma) fit to the data for 0.3 < <beta>(1) < 0.5.
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页码:1191 / 1204
页数:14
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