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The growth rate of cosmic structure from peculiar velocities at low and high redshifts

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arxiv 1203.4814 v2 pith:UKJ3QAUK submitted 2012-03-21 astro-ph.CO

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Peculiar velocities are an important probe of the growth rate of mass density fluctuations in the Universe. Most previous studies have focussed exclusively on measuring peculiar velocities at intermediate ($0.2 < z < 1$) redshifts using statistical redshift-space distortions. Here we emphasize the power of peculiar velocities obtained directly from distance measurements at low redshift ($z \lesssim 0.05$), and show that these data break the usual degeneracies in the \Omega_{m,0} -- $\sigma_{8,0}$ parameter space. Using only peculiar velocity data, we find $\Omega_{m,0} = 0.259\pm0.045$ and $\sigma_{8,0} = 0.748\pm0.035$. Fixing the amplitude of fluctuations at very high redshift using observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the same data can be used to constrain the growth index $\gamma$, with the strongest constraints coming from peculiar velocity measurements in the nearby Universe. We find $\gamma = 0.619\pm 0.054$, consistent with LCDM. Current peculiar velocity data already strongly constrain modified gravity models, and will be a powerful test as data accumulate.

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