The pairwise velocity dispersion of galaxies: effects of non-radial motions |
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| Authors: | A Del Popolo |
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| Institution: | 1Dipartimento di Matematica, UniversitàStatale di Bergamo, Piazza Rosate, 2 - I 24129 Bergamo, Italy;2Feza Gürsey Institute, PO Box 6 Çengelköy, Istanbul, Turkey;3Bogˇaziçi University, 80185 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | I discuss the effect of non-radial motions on the small-scale peculiar pairwise velocity dispersions (PVD) of galaxies in a cold dark matter (CDM) model and calculate the PVD for the SCDM model by means of the refined cosmic virial theorem (CVT), taking account of non-radial motions by means of the Del Popolo & Gambera model. I compare the results of the present model with the data from Davis & Peebles, the IRAS value at 1 h ?1 Mpc of Fisher et al. and Marzke et al. I show that while the SCDM model disagrees with the observed values, as pointed out by several authors, taking account of non-radial motions produces smaller values for the PVD. At r ≤1 h ?1 Mpc the result is in agreement with Bartlett & Blanchard. In the light of this last paper, the result may be also read as a strong dependence of the CVT prediction on the model chosen to describe the mass distribution around galaxies, suggesting that the CVT cannot be taken as a direct evidence for a low-density Universe. Similarly to what is shown by Del Popolo & Gambera and Del Popolo et al., the agreement of our model to the observational data is because of a scale-dependent bias induced by the presence of non-radial motions. As the assumptions on which CVT is based have been questioned by several authors, I also calculated the PVD using the redshift distortion in the redshift-space correlation function, ξ z( r p, π), and compared it with the PVD measured from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey by Jing et al. The result confirms that non-radial motions influence the PVD making them agree better with the observed data. |
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| Keywords: | galaxies: formation cosmology: theory large-scale structure of Universe |
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