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Biased Estimates of Omega from Comparing Smoothed Predicted Velocity Fields to Unsmoothed Peculiar Velocity Measurements | | Andreas A. Berlind
; Vijay K. Narayanan
; David H. Weinberg .
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7 Dec 1999 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | 1 and 2), David H. Weinberg .( The Ohio State University, Princeton University | | Abstract: | We show that a regression of unsmoothed peculiar velocity measurements against peculiar velocities predicted from a smoothed galaxy density field leads to a biased estimate of the cosmological density parameter Omega, even when galaxies trace the underlying mass distribution and galaxy positions and velocities are known perfectly. The bias arises because the errors in the predicted velocities are correlated with the predicted velocities themselves. We investigate this bias using cosmological N-body simulations and analytic arguments. In linear perturbation theory, for cold dark matter power spectra and Gaussian or top hat smoothing filters, the bias in Omega is always positive, and its magnitude increases with increasing smoothing scale. This linear calculation reproduces the N-body results for Gaussian smoothing radii R_s > 10 Mpc/h, while non-linear effects lower the bias on smaller smoothing scales, and for R_s < 3 Mpc/h Omega is underestimated rather than overestimated. The net bias in Omega for a given smoothing filter depends on the underlying cosmological model. The effect on current estimates of Omega from velocity-velocity comparisons is probably small relative to other uncertainties, but taking full advantage of the statistical precision of future peculiar velocity data sets will require either equal smoothing of the predicted and measured velocity fields or careful accounting for the biases discussed here. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0001099 | | Other source: | [GID 83054] astro-ph/0001099 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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