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The peculiar motion of the Earth causes a dipole anisotropy modulation in the distant galaxy distribution due to the aberration effect. However, the amplitude and angular direction of the effect is not necessarily the same as those of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-12 Yousuke Itoh , Kazuhiro Yahata , Masahiro Takada

We use numerical simulations to investigate the behaviour of the dipole moment of the spatial distribution of different kinds of mass tracers. We select density peaks of the simulated matter distribution with mean separations of 38 and 30…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. Kolokotronis , M. Plionis , P. Coles , S. Borgani , L. Moscardini

The cosmological principle, asserting large-scale homogeneity and isotropy, underpins the standard model of cosmology. Testing its validity using independent astronomical probes remains crucial for understanding the global structure of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Debosi Mondal , Biswajit Pandey , Amit Mondal

We study the signal of anisotropy in AGNs/quasars of CatWISE2020 catalogue using different observables. It has been reported earlier that this data shows a strong signal of dipole anisotropy in the source number counts. We test this claim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Rahul Kothari , Mohit Panwar , Gurmeet Singh , Prabhakar Tiwari , Pankaj Jain

The origin of small deviations from statistical isotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) - the so-called CMB anomalies - remains an open question in modern cosmology. In this work, we test statistical isotropy in Planck Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 C. Gimeno-Amo , F. K. Hansen , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro , A. J. Banday

We use information entropy to test the isotropy in the nearby galaxy distribution mapped by the Two Micron All-Sky redshift survey (2MRS). We find that the galaxy distribution is highly anisotropic on small scales. The radial anisotropy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Biswajit Pandey

We present a new approach to constructing and fitting dipoles and higher-order multipoles in synthetic galaxy samples over the sky. Within our Bayesian paradigm, we illustrate that this technique is robust to masked skies, allowing us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Oliver T. Oayda , Vasudev Mittal , Geraint F. Lewis

We propose a data-driven approach to reconstruct the all-sky distribution of the dispersion measure contribution from the Galactic halo ($\mathrm{DM_{halo}}$) through a spherical harmonic expansion, enabling an investigation of its possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-07 Yang Liu , Bao Wang , Puxun Wu , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

The statistical tests - done by the authors - are surveyed, which verify the null-hypothesis of the intrinsic randomness in the angular distribution of gamma-ray bursts collected at BATSE Catalog. The tests use the counts-in-cells method,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Meszaros , Z. Bagoly , L. G. Balazs , I. Horvath , R. Vavrek

We probe the anisotropy of the large-scale structure (LSS) with the WISE-2MASS catalogue. This analysis is performed by a directional comparison of the galaxy number counts through the entire celestial sphere once systematic effects, such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-23 C. A. P. Bengaly , A. Bernui , J. S. Alcaniz , H. S. Xavier , C. P. Novaes

The dipole in the angular distribution of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is attributed to the Doppler effect and our motion relative to the CMB rest frame. It is expected that observations of large-scale structures (LSSs) would also…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Arefeh Daei Rasouli , Haniyeh S. Tadayyoni , Shant Baghram , Sohrab Rahvar

The dipole anisotropy seen in the {cosmic microwave background radiation} is interpreted as due to our peculiar motion. The Cosmological Principle implies that this cosmic dipole signal should also be present, with the same direction, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Carlos A. P. Bengaly , Thilo M. Siewert , Dominik J. Schwarz , Roy Maartens

We study the dipole anisotropy in integrated linearly polarization flux density in NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). We extract the anisotropy parameters in the number counts, number counts weighted by polarization observables, i.e. degree of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 Prabhakar Tiwari , Pankaj Jain

Radiation traversing the observable universe provides powerful ways to probe anisotropy of electromagnetic propagation. A controversial recent study claimed a signal of dipole character. Here we test a new and independent data set of 361…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-16 Pankaj Jain , John P. Ralston

Large-scale structure surveys can be used to measure the dipole in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), in the luminosity distances inferred from type-Ia supernova observations, and in the spatial distribution of galaxies and quasars. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Jaiyul Yoo , Matteo Magi , Dragan Huterer

We analyze two volume limited galaxy samples from the SDSS photometric and spectroscopic data to test the isotropy in the local Universe. We use information entropy to quantify the global anisotropy in the galaxy distribution at different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Suman Sarkar , Biswajit Pandey , Rishi Khatri

We critically assess the impact of significant dipole and large-scale anisotropies on galaxy clustering signals, with a focus on radio continuum surveys. Our study reveals that these anisotropies -- resulting from intrinsic cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-15 Prabhakar Tiwari

We present a comparative analysis of estimators and Bayesian methods for determining the number count dipole from cosmological surveys. The increase in discordance between the number count dipole and the CMB's kinematic dipole has presented…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Vasudev Mittal , Oliver T. Oayda , Geraint F. Lewis

There currently exist many observations which are not consistent with the cosmological principle. We review these observations with a particular emphasis on those relevant for Square Kilometre Array (SKA). In particular, several different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Shamik Ghosh , Pankaj Jain , Gopal Kashyap , Rahul Kothari , Sharvari Nadkarni-Ghosh , Prabhakar Tiwari

We are in motion against the cosmic backdrop. This motion is evidenced by the systematic temperature shift - or dipole anisotropy - observed in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB). Because of the Doppler effect, the temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Chris Blake , Jasper Wall