Browsing Theses by Subject "Peculiar Velocities"
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Peculiar Velocities and Large Scale Flows as Probes of Gravity, ΛCDM and the Growth of Structure over Cosmic Time
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)Peculiar velocities are possibly the most powerful probes of very large-scale mass density fluctuations in the nearby Universe. When coupled with a density field they also can constrain the growth factor of the universe ... -
Virtues of the Visible; Voluminous Vistas & Velocities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-11)Peculiar velocities are the motions of objects in excess of that resulting from the expansion of the Universe. They arise from gravitational interactions, and as such, probe the underlying distribution of dark matter on ...