2000/06/02 by Helen Valentine, Will Saunders, Valentine, Helen +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0006040
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS
arxiv created 2000/06/02 · openalex publication_date 2000/06/02 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present a generalized version of the Path Interchange Zel'dovich Approximation (PIZA), for use with realistic galaxy redshift surveys. PIZA is a linear particle-based Lagrangian method which uses the present day positions of galaxies to reconstruct both the initial density field and the present day peculiar velocity field. We generalize the method by mapping galaxy positions from redshift-space to real-space in the Local Group frame, and take the selection function into account by minimizing the mass weighted action. We have applied our new method to mock galaxy catalogues, and find it offers an improvement in the accuracy of reconstructions over linear theory. We have applied our method to the all-sky IRAS Point Source Catalogue Redshift Survey. Applying PIZA to PSCz, we are able to obtain the peculiar velocity field, the dipole, bulk velocities, and the distortion parameter. From the dipole, we find that beta=0.51+/-0.14. We compare the PSCz bulk velocity with that of Mk III and conclude that beta=0.5+/-0.15. We compare the PSCz dipole with that of SFI and find that beta=0.5+/-0.1.