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Hans Publishers, Astronomy & Astrophysics, (583), p. A52

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526051

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Constraining cosmology with pairwise velocity estimator

Journal article published in 2015 by Yin-Zhe Ma ORCID, Min Li, Ping He
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

In this paper, we develop a full statistical method for the pairwise velocity estimator previously proposed, and apply Cosmicflows-2 catalogue to this method to constrain cosmology. We first calculate the covariance matrix for line-of-sight velocities for a given catalogue, and then simulate the mock full-sky surveys from it, and then calculate the variance for the pairwise velocity field. By applying the $8315$ independent galaxy samples and compressed $5224$ group samples from Cosmicflows-2 catalogue to this statistical method, we find that the joint constraint on $Ω^{0.6}_{\rm m}h$ and $σ_{8}$ is completely consistent with the WMAP 9-year and Planck 2015 best-fitting cosmology. Currently, there is no evidence for the modified gravity models or any dynamic dark energy models from this practice, and the error-bars need to be reduced in order to provide any concrete evidence against/to support $Λ$CDM cosmology. ; Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures