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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 455, 期 1, 页码 386-401出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2146
关键词
surveys; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: statistics; cosmology: observations; large-scale structure of Universe
资金
- Jean Rogerson Scholarship
- UWA Top-up Scholarship from University of Western Australia
- CSIRO Malcolm McIntosh Lecture bankmecu scholarship
- Astronomical Society of Australia
- Australian Research Council [FT110100639, FT100100595]
- [CE110001020]
- Australian Research Council [FT100100595, FT110100639] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
We measure the bulk flow of the local Universe using the 6dF Galaxy Survey peculiar velocity sample (6dFGSv), the largest and most homogeneous peculiar velocity sample to date. 6dFGSv is a Fundamental Plane sample of similar to 10(4) peculiar velocities covering the whole Southern hemisphere for galactic latitude vertical bar b vertical bar > 10 degrees, out to redshift z = 0.0537. We apply the 'minimum variance' bulk flow weighting method, which allows us to make a robust measurement of the bulk flow on scales of 50 and 70 h(-1) Mpc. We investigate and correct for potential bias due to the lognormal velocity uncertainties, and verify our method by constructing A cold dark matter (ACDM) 6dFGSv mock catalogues incorporating the survey selection function. For a hemisphere of radius 50 h(-1) Mpc we find a bulk flow amplitude of U = 248 +/- 58 km s(-1) in the direction (l, b) = (318 degrees +/- 20 degrees, 40 degrees +/- 13 degrees), and for 70 h(-1) Mpc we find U = 243 +/- 58 km s(-1), in the same direction. Our measurement gives us a constraint on sigma(8) of 1.01(-0.58)(+1.07). Our results are in agreement with other recent measurements of the direction of the bulk flow, and our measured amplitude is consistent with a ACDM prediction.
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