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How Unusual is the Locally Quiet Hubble Flow?

David Schlegel, Marc Davis, Frank Summers, Jon A. Holtzman

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9310040

Abstract

The local galaxy distribution offers an interesting constraint to cosmological models of structure formation. The galaxies are distributed in a long, filamentary structure, presumably the result of large amplitude gravitational instability, yet the local velocity field is cold. In particular, there are no blueshifted galaxies within 5h-1 Mpc except those within the Local Group radius of 1h-1 Mpc. Using numerical simulations we demonstrate that such a situation is extremely rare for an observer in Omega=1 CDM models, but is not uncommon in mixed dark matter (MDM) models that include massive neutrinos.

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