POTENT Reconstruction from Mark III Velocities

Abstract

We present an improved POTENT method for reconstructing the velocity and mass density fields from radial peculiar velocities, test it with mock catalogs, and apply it to the Mark III Catalog. Method improvments: (a) inhomogeneous Malmquist bias is reduced by grouping and corrected in forward or inverse analyses of inferred distances, (b) the smoothing into a radial velocity field is optimized to reduce window and sampling biases, (c) the density is derived from the velocity using an improved nonlinear approximation, and (d) the computational errors are made negligible. The method is tested and optimized using mock catalogs based on an N-body simulation that mimics our cosmological neighborhood, and the remaining errors are evaluated quantitatively. The Mark III catalog, with ~3300 grouped galaxies, allows a reliable reconstruction with fixed Gaussian smoothing of 10-12 Mpc/h out to ~60 Mpc/h. We present maps of the 3D velocity and mass-density fields and the corresponding errors. The typical systematic and random errors in the density fluctuations inside 40 Mpc/h are \pm 0.13 and \pm 0.18. The recovered mass distribution resembles in its gross features the galaxy distribution in redshift surveys and the mass distribution in a similar POTENT analysis of a complementary velocity catalog (SFI), including the Great Attractor, Perseus-Pisces, and the void in between. The reconstruction inside ~40 Mpc/h is not affected much by a revised calibration of the distance indicators (VM2, tailored to match the velocities from the IRAS 1.2Jy redshift survey). The bulk velocity within the sphere of radius 50 Mpc/h about the Local Group is V_50=370 \pm 110 km/s (including systematic errors), and is shown to be mostly generated by external mass fluctuations. With the VM2 calibration, V_50 is reduced to 305 \pm 110 km/s.

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