Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 1994. 32: 371-418 Copyright © 1994 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved

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KEY WORDS: cosmology, large-scale structure, peculiar velocities

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY
• MEASURING PECULIAR VELOCITIES
• Distance Indicators
• Malmquist Biases
• Homogenized Catalogs
• ANALYSIS OF OBSERVED PECULIAR VELOCITIES
• Toy models
• Potential Analysis
• Regularized Multi-parameter Models - Wiener Filter
• Malmquist-Free Analysis
• Fields of Velocity and Mass Density
• PREDICTED MOTIONS FROM THE GALAXY Z-DISTRIBUTION
• TESTING BASIC HYPOTHESES
• CMB Fluctuations versus Motions
• Galaxies versus Dynamical Mass
• Environmental effects: Ellipticals versus Spirals
• THE INITIAL FLUCTUATIONS
• Power Spectrum - Dark Matter
• Back in Time
• THE VALUE OF Ω
• β from Galaxies versus the CMB Dipole
• β from Galaxy Density versus Velocities
• β from Distortions in Redshift Space
• β from PDFs using Velocities
• Ω from Velocities in Voids
• DISCUSSION: ARE THE HYPOTHESES JUSTIFIED?
• REFERENCES