Nonlinear Cosmology Program 2006 @ Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur

Nonlinear Cosmology Workshop

Nice, January 25–27, 2006


Streaming motions of spiral galaxies within z=0.03 based on a new 2MFGC catalog

Igor Karachentsev

An all-sky catalog of 18,020 disc-like galaxies is created to study cosmic streamings on a scale of z < 0.1. The galaxies are selected from the Extended Source Catalog of the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (XSC 2MASS) basing on their 2MASS axial ratio a/b > 3. The "2MASS-selected Flat Galaxy Catalog" (2MFGC) contains data on galaxy magnitudes in the J, H, Ks bands, axial ratio, positional angle and other basic galaxy parameters.

We study the peculiar velocity field traced by 2,700 spiral galaxies in the 2MFGC with known velocities and rotation amplitudes. Distances to the galaxies are estimated from the J-band Tully-Fisher relation having a scatter of 0.45 mag.

The bulk flow of the 2MFGC sample in the CMB frame is (199+-37) km/s, toward l = (290+-11) degr, b = (+1+-9) degr. The dipole motion amplitude tends to decrease with depth, showing the expected convergence to the CMB frame. We suggest that about 60% of the bulk flow within z = 0.03 is caused by external attractors like the Shapley Concentration of rich clusters.


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