The SMAC project is a Fundamental Plane peculiar velocity survey of 56
clusters of galaxies to a depth of cz ~ 12000 km/s. We present here some
results from the analysis of the SMAC velocity field, focussing on three
specific features: the best-fitting bulk-flow model for the SMAC data; the
agreement between the observed velocity field and predictions from the
IRAS-PSCz redshift survey; the role of the Great Attractor and Shapley
Concentration in generating the local flows. We argue that the local mass
distribution, as probed by the PSCz, can fully account for the observed cluster
velocities.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Proceedings of the Cosmic Flows
Workshop, Victoria, B. C., Canada, July 1999, eds. S. Courteau, M. Strauss,
and J. Willic
