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01/18/2013<br />

Peculiar velocities: tracers of matter<br />

• Provide map of underlying matter field<br />

• Velocity field related to density field via<br />

(assuming linear approximation):<br />

where<br />

− f: growth rate<br />

− γ: growth index<br />

• Unbiased (unlike galaxies)<br />

Morag I. Scrimgeour 30

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