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Bulk flows in the local Universe and the importance of relativistic effects

Asta Heinesen*

  • Univ Lyon, Ens de Lyon, Univ Lyon1, CNRS, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon UMR5574, F-69007, Lyon, France and Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

  • *asta.heinesen@nbi.ku.dk
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Phys. Rev. D 108, 103530 – Published 22 November, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.103530

Abstract

Bulk flow velocities are typically estimated in the idealized picture where observers are moving within a perfectly homogeneous and isotropic spacetime. This picture is consistent within standard perturbation theory up to relativistic effects that lead to correction terms of order vz, where z is the redshift of observation and v is the amplitude of the bulk flow. The dominant relativistic contributions at scales z≲1 are caused by gravitational redshift and time evolution of the velocity field. We include these effects within a broadly applicable weak-field approximation and provide a cosmographic formula for estimating bulk flows at a high precision. Based on this formula, we judge that recent bulk flow estimates are biased toward larger values by ∼10%. This theoretical bias surpasses the measurement biases of the same estimates, and it will become still more important to account for the relativistic effects as the scales at which bulk flows are estimated to increase.

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Phys. Rev. D 108, 103530– Published 22 November, 2023
  • Received 31 May 2023
  • Accepted 31 October 2023
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