期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 481, 期 1, 页码 1368-1375出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2332
关键词
galaxies: distances and redshifts; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: statistics; cosmological parameters; large-scale structure of Universe; cosmology: theory
资金
- Murdock Charitable Trust
We present an improved minimal variance (MV) method for using a radial peculiar velocity sample to estimate the average of the three-dimensional velocity field over a spherical volume, which leads to an easily interpretable bulk flow measurement. The only assumption required for this interpretation is that the velocity field is irrotational. The resulting bulk flow estimate is particularly insensitive to smaller scale flows. We also introduce a new constraint into the MV method that ensures that bulk flow estimates are independent of the value of the Hubble constant H-0; this is important given the tension between the locally measured H-0 and that obtained from the cosmic background radiation observations. We apply our method to the Cosmicflows-3 catalogue and find that, while the bulk flows for shallower spheres are consistent with the standard cosmological model, there is some tension between the bulk flow in a spherical volume with radius 150 h(-1) Mpc and its expectations; we find only a similar to 2 per cent chance of obtaining a bulk flow as large or larger in the standard cosmological model with Planck parameters.
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