2MTF-V. Cosmography, beta, and the residual bulk flow Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2015 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press. Using the Tully-Fisher relation, we derive peculiar velocities for the 2MASS Tully-Fisher survey and describe the velocity field of the nearby Universe.We use adaptive kernel smoothing to map the velocity field, and compare it to reconstructions based on the redshift space galaxy distributions of the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) and the IRAS Point Source Catalog Redshift Survey (PSCz). With a standard 2 minimization fit to the models, we find that the PSCz model provides a better fit to the 2MTF velocity field data than does the 2MRS model, and provides a value of in greater agreement with literature values. However, when we subtract away the monopole deviation in the velocity zero-point between data and model, the 2MRS model also produces a value of in agreement with literature values.We also calculate the 'residual bulk flow': the component of the bulk flow not accounted for by the models. This is ~250 km s -1 when performing the standard fit, but drops to ~150 km s -1 for both models when the aforementioned monopole offset between data and models is removed. This smaller number is more in line with theoretical expectations, and suggests that the models largely account for the major structures in the nearby Universe responsible for the bulk velocity.

published proceedings

  • MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Springob, C. M., Hong, T., Staveley-Smith, L., Masters, K. L., Macri, L. M., Koribalski, B. S., ... Erdogdu, P.

citation count

  • 30

complete list of authors

  • Springob, Christopher M||Hong, Tao||Staveley-Smith, Lister||Masters, Karen L||Macri, Lucas M||Koribalski, Baerbel S||Jones, D Heath||Jarrett, Tom H||Magoulas, Christina||Erdogdu, Pirin

publication date

  • February 2016