ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 97 05 22 4 v 1 2 8 M ay 1 99 7 A Galaxy - Weighted Measure of the Relative Peculiar Velocity Dispersion
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The relative pair dispersion of galaxies has for the past decade been the standard measure of the thermal energy of fluctuations in the observed galaxy distribution. This statistic is known to be unstable, since it is a pair-weighted measure that is very sensitive to rare, rich clusters of galaxies. As a more stable alternative, we here present a single-particle-weighted statistic σ 1 , which can be considered as an estimate of the one-dimensional rms peculiar velocity dispersion of galaxies relative to their neighbors, and which can be interpreted by means of a filtered version of the Cosmic-Energy equation. We calculate this statistic for the all-sky survey of IRAS galaxies, finding σ 1 = 95 ± 16 km/sec. The UGC catalog yields a higher value, σ 1 = 130 ± 15 km/s. We calibrate our procedure by means of mock catalogs constructed from N-body simulations and find that our method is stable and has modest biases which can easily be corrected. We use the measured values of σ 1 in a filtered Layzer-Irvine equation to obtain an estimate of˜Ω ≡ Ω/b 2. We find that˜Ω ≈ 0.14 ± 0.05 for both the IRAS and UGC catalogs, which is slightly lower than other recent determinations, but is consistent with a trend of an effective Ω that increases gradually with scale.
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