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Bulk Flow Motion Detection in the Local Universe with Pantheon$+$ Type Ia Supernovae

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-06-04 v2

Abstract

The {\em bulk flow} in the Local Universe is a collective phenomenon due to the peculiar motions of matter structures, which, instead of moving in random directions, appears to follow an approximate dipole velocity flow. We apply a directional analysis to investigate, through the Hubble-Lema\^{\i}tre diagram, the angular dependence of the Hubble constant H0H_0 of a sample of Type Ia Supernovae from the Pantheon+ catalog in the Local Universe (0.015z0.060.015 \le z \le 0.06). We perform a directional analysis that reveals a statistically significant dipole variation of H0H_0, at more than 99.9%99.9\% confidence level, showing that matter structures follow a dipole bulk flow motion towards (l,b)=(326.1±11.2,27.8±11.2)(l,b) = (326.^\circ1 \pm 11.^\circ2,27.^\circ8 \pm 11.^\circ2), close to the Shapley supercluster (l\scalebox0.6Shapley,b\scalebox0.6Shapley)=(311.5,32.3)(l_{\scalebox{0.6}{Shapley}},b_{\scalebox{0.6}{Shapley}}) = (311.^\circ5, 32.^\circ3), with velocity 132.14±109.3132.14 \pm 109.3 km s1^{-1} at the effective distance 102.83±10.2102.83 \pm 10.2~Mpc. Interestingly, the antipodal direction of this dipole points close to the Dipole Repeller structure. Our analyses confirm that the gravitational dipole system Shapley-Dipole Repeller explains well the observed bulk flow velocity field in the Local Universe. Furthermore, we performed robustness tests that support our results. Additionally, our approach provides a measurement of the Hubble constant H0=70.39±1.4H_0 = 70.39 \pm 1.4~\text{km s1^{-1} Mpc1^{-1}}, at the effective distance 102.8102.8~Mpc, z0.025z \simeq 0.025. Note that this value was obtained using the first order approximation of the Hubble law because our methodology is model-independent. If one assumes, for instance, cosmography at second order with the Λ\LambdaCDM value q0=0.55q_0 = -0.55, which is a model-dependent hypothesis, then H0=72.6±1.5H_0 = 72.6 \pm 1.5 km s1^{-1} Mpc1^{-1}, but our results: bulk flow velocity, dipole direction and its statistical significance remain the same.

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@article{arxiv.2405.11077,
  title  = {Bulk Flow Motion Detection in the Local Universe with Pantheon$+$ Type Ia Supernovae},
  author = {Maria Lopes and Armando Bernui and Camila Franco and Felipe Avila},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.11077},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

To avoid potential misunderstandings regarding our estimate of the Hubble constant, we have added a comment in the abstract and corrected a typo in the text