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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 2.DESCRIPTION OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
METHOD
- 2.1.Alternative Approaches to Peculiar
Velocity-Density Comparison
- 2.2.VELMOD
- 2.2.1.Mathematical Details
- 2.2.2.Further Discussion of VELMOD
Likelihood
- 2.2.3.Implementation of VELMOD
- 3.TESTS WITH SIMULATED GALAXY CATALOGS
- 3.1.Accuracy of
-Determination
- 3.2.Accuracy of Determination of
v
and wLG
- 3.3.TF Parameters Obtained from
VELMOD
- 3.4.Properties of VELMOD Likelihood
- 4.APPLICATION TO MARK III CATALOG DATA
- 4.1.Sample Selection
- 4.2.Velocity Width Dependence of TF Scatter
- 4.3.Treatment of Virgo
- 4.4.Implementation of a Quadrupole
Flow
- 4.5.Results
- 4.6.VELMOD Results Using 500 km
s-1 Smoothing
- 4.7.Consistency of Mark III and
VELMOD TF Relations
- 5.ANALYSIS OF RESIDUALS: DO PREDICTIONS
MATCH OBSERVATIONS?
- 5.1.Sky Maps of VELMOD Residuals
- 5.2.Residual Autocorrelation Function
- 5.2.1.Using Residual Correlations to
Identify Poor Fits Quantitatively
- 6.DISCUSSION
- 6.1.What is the Value of
I?
- 6.1.1.Why Do VELMOD and POTIRAS
Yield Different Values of
I?
- 6.1.2.Effect of Cosmic Scatter
- 6.2.Do IRAS and TF Velocity Fields
Agree?
- 6.2.1Comparison with Davis,
Nusser, & Willick
- 6.2.2.Role of Quadrupole
- 6.3.What is the Value of
?
- 6.3.1.Nonlinear Analysis
- 6.3.2.Constraining
from
Independent Estimates of bI
- 6.4.Summary
- APPENDIX A. IRAS VELOCITY-DENSITY
RECONSTRUCTION
- APPENDIX B. RESIDUAL QUADRUPOLE
- APPENDIX C. PROPERTIES OF STATISTIC
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- REFERENCES