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Features of the Spatial Distribution of Galaxy Clusters

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-06-09 v1

Abstract

A statistical analysis of anisotropic quasiperiodic features of the spatial distribution of galaxy clusters obtained on the basis of spectroscopic and photometric redshifts in the interval 0.1z0.470.1 \leq z \leq 0.47 has been carried out. Based on data from the SDSS~III catalog, we show that the preferential direction previously detected in the northern hemisphere (a narrow cone of directions: α0=170±5, δ0=29±5\alpha_0=170^\circ \pm 5^\circ, \ \delta_0= 29^\circ \pm 5^\circ), along which the one-dimensional distribution of projections of the Cartesian coordinates of clusters contains a significant ((45)σ\gtrsim (4 - 5) \sigma) quasi-periodic component, can also be found using photometric redshifts, achieving a certain accuracy (Δz0.013\Delta z \lesssim 0.013). Based on data from the photometric DES×\timesunWISE catalog, we have analyzed the spatial distribution of clusters in the southern hemisphere, where a cone of close directions was also detected (α0=346±5, δ0=29±5\alpha_0=346^\circ \pm 5^\circ,\ \delta_0= - 29^\circ \pm 5^\circ ), which are approximately an extention of the directions revealed in the northern hemisphere. The power spectra of one-dimensional distributions along these directions contain significant ((45)σ\gtrsim (4 - 5) \sigma) features in the same interval of wave numbers 0.04k0.06 h0.04 \lesssim k \lesssim 0.06~h~Mpc1^{-1}.

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@article{arxiv.2506.05847,
  title  = {Features of the Spatial Distribution of Galaxy Clusters},
  author = {Andrei I. Ryabinkov and Alexandr D. Kaminker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.05847},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages, 4 figure