Current Status Of Velocity Field Surveys: A Consistency Check

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  • 18 July 2006
Abstract
We present a statistical analysis comparing the bulk--flow measurements for six recent peculiar velocity surveys, namely, ENEAR, SFI, RFGC, SBF and the Mark III singles and group catalogs. We study whether the bulk--flow estimates are consistent with each other and construct the full three dimensional bulk--flow vectors. The method we discuss could be used to test the consistency of all velocity field surveys. We show that although these surveys differ in their geometry and measurement errors, their bulk flow vectors are expected to be highly correlated and in fact show impressive agreement in all cases. Our results suggest that even though the surveys we study target galaxies of different morphology and use different distance measures, they all reliably reflect the same underlying large-scale flow.

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