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从Cosmicflows-2看宇宙整体流和局部运动

Cosmic Bulk Flow and the Local Motion from Cosmicflows-2

Yehuda Hoffman, Helene M. Courtois, R. Brent Tully

摘要:

对特殊速度的全天观测可以说是绘制大尺度结构的最佳方法,其距离为100 Mpc/h的几倍。利用迄今为止最大、最精确的星系奇特速度表“Cosmicflows-2”,以LCDM模型为贝叶斯先验模型,用WMAP推断的宇宙学参数,通过Wiener滤波和约束实现,重建了星系的大尺度结构。本文重点研究局部流场的整体流,定义为半径范围为R=500 Mpc/h的顶帽球的平均速度。一般而言,估算的大尺度结构,特别是整体流量,是由观测数据和假定的先验模型之间的张力决定的。这种分析的先决条件是要求估计的总体流量与先前的模型一致。这种一致性在这里得到了体现。在R=50(150)Mpc/h时,估计的整体速度为250+/-21(239+/-38)km/s。在这些半径处对应的宇宙方差为126(60)km/s,这意味着这些估计的整体流是由数据而不是由假设的先验模型决定的。估计的整体速度主要由R~200 Mpc/h的数据决定,其中单个超星系笛卡尔分量(r.m.s.值)超过受约束实现的方差至少2倍。超星系SGX和SGY分量的CMB偶极速度恢复维纳滤波速度场下降到几公里/秒。估计速度的SGZ分量,受回避区影响最大的分量,偏离126 km/s(几乎2 sigma差异)。

英文摘要:

Full sky surveys of peculiar velocity are arguably the best way to map the large scale structure out to distances of a few times 100 Mpc/h. Using the largest and most accurate ever catalog of galaxy peculiar velocities "Cosmicflows-2", the large scale structure has been reconstructed by means of the Wiener filter and constrained realizations assuming as a Bayesian prior model the LCDM model with the WMAP inferred cosmological parameters. The present paper focuses on studying the bulk flow of the local flow field, defined as the mean velocity of top-hat spheres with radii ranging out to R=500 Mpc/h. The estimated large scale structures, in general, and the bulk flow, in particular, are determined by the tension between the observational data and the assumed prior model. A prerequisite for such an analysis is the requirement that the estimated bulk flow is consistent with the prior model. Such a consistency is found here. At R=50(150) Mpc/h the estimated bulk velocity is 250+/-21 (239+/-38) km/s. The corresponding cosmic variance at these radii is 126(60)km/s, which implies that these estimated bulk flows are dominated by the data and not by the assumed prior model. The estimated bulk velocity is dominated by the data out to R~200 Mpc/h, where the cosmic variance on the individual Supergalactic Cartesian components (of the r.m.s. values) exceeds the variance of the Constrained Realizations by at least a factor of 2. The supergalactic SGX and SGY components of the CMB dipole velocity are recovered by the Wiener filter velocity field down to a very few km/s. The SGZ component of the estimated velocity, the one that is most affected by the Zone of Avoidance, is off by 126 km/s (an almost 2 sigma discrepancy).

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