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Testing cosmic isotropy with galaxies position angles distribution

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2017-05-08 v1

Abstract

We analyse the distribution of position angles of 1 million galaxies from the Hyperleda catalogue, a sample that presents the galaxies coordinates in the celestial sphere, information that allows us to look for a possible privileged direction. Our analysis involves different tests and statistical methods, from which it is possible to infer with high probability (pp-value extremely low) that the galactic planes are not randomly oriented in the sky. Whether this is an evidence of a cosmological anisotropy or an observational bias due to local effects is something deserving further studies.

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@article{arxiv.1705.02323,
  title  = {Testing cosmic isotropy with galaxies position angles distribution},
  author = {R. S. Menezes and C. Pigozzo and S. Carneiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.02323},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures

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