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We reanalyse the anisotropic galaxy clustering measurement from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), demonstrating that using the full shape information provides cosmological constraints that are comparable to other…

In a recent analysis of number counts in the ESP survey Scaramella et al. (1998) claim to find evidence for a cross-over to homogeneity at large scales, and against a fractal behaviour with dimension $D \approx 2$. In this comment we note…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Joyce , M. Montuori , F. Sylos Labini , L. Pietronero

We present, for the first time, an observational test of the consistency relation for the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe through a joint analysis of the anisotropic two- and three-point correlation functions (2PCF and 3PCF) of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-18 Naonori S. Sugiyama , Daisuke Yamauchi , Tsutomu Kobayashi , Tomohiro Fujita , Shun Arai , Shin'ichi Hirano , Shun Saito , Florian Beutler , Hee-Jong Seo

Studies of the Universe's transition to smoothness in the context of LCDM have all pointed to a transition radius no larger than ~300 Mpc. These are based on a broad array of tracers for the matter power spectrum, including galaxies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Fulvio Melia

We report measurements of the angular scale of cosmic homogeneity ($\theta_{H}$) using the recently released luminous red galaxy sample of the sixteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV LRG DR16). It consists of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-28 Uendert Andrade , Rodrigo S. Gonçalves , Gabriela C. Carvalho , Carlos A. P. Bengaly , Joel C. Carvalho , Jailson Alcaniz

We analyze the clustering of large scale structure in the Universe in a model independent method, accounting for anisotropic effects along and transverse to the line of sight. The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopy Survey Data Release 11…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-01 Yong-Seon Song , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Teppei Okumura , Minji Oh , Eric V. Linder

Extracting the non-Gaussian information of the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) is vital in unlocking the full potential of the rich datasets from the upcoming stage-IV galaxy surveys. Galaxy skew spectra serve as efficient…

We present the cosmological implications of measurements of void-galaxy and galaxy-galaxy clustering from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Main Galaxy Sample (MGS), Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), and extended BOSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 Alex Woodfinden , Will J. Percival , Seshadri Nadathur , Hans A. Winther , T. S. Fraser , Elena Massara , Enrique Paillas , Slađana Radinović

New observations of high-redshift objects are crucial for the improvement of the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model and our understanding of the Universe. One of the main directions of modern observational cosmology is the analysis of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-24 Maxim Nikonov , Mikhail Chekal , Stanislav Shirokov , Andrey Baryshev , Vladimir Gorokhov

New measurements of galaxy clustering and background radiations provide improved constraints on the isotropy and homogeneity of the Universe on large scales. In particular, the angular distribution of radio sources and the X-Ray Background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 Kelvin K. S. Wu , Ofer Lahav , Martin J. Rees

In the multi-fractal analysis of large scale matter distribution, the scale of transition to homogeneity is defined as the scale above which the fractal dimension of underlying point distribution is equal to the ambient dimension of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Jaswant K. Yadav , J. S. Bagla , Nishikanta Khandai

We constrain cosmological parameters by analysing the angular power spectra of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR12 galaxies, a spectroscopic follow-up of around 1.3 million SDSS galaxies over 9,376 deg$^2$ with an effective…

The precision of the cosmological data allows us to accurately approximate the predictions for cosmological observables by Taylor expanding up to a low order the dependence on the cosmological parameters around a reference cosmology. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Thomas Colas , Guido D'Amico , Leonardo Senatore , Pierre Zhang , Florian Beutler

We introduce the velocity coherence scale $R_v$, the scale at which the spherical volume average of the trace of the velocity correlation tensor transitions from scaling faster than the sphere radius to scaling more slowly. This corresponds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Leonardo Giani , Cullan Howlett , Chris Blake , Ryan J. Turner , Tamara M. Davis

We present the first cosmological constraints derived from the analysis of the void size function. This work relies on the final BOSS DR12 data set, a large spectroscopic galaxy catalog, ideal for the identification of cosmic voids. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Sofia Contarini , Alice Pisani , Nico Hamaus , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Marco Baldi

We introduce a statistical quantity, known as the $K$ function, related to the integral of the two--point correlation function. It gives us straightforward information about the scale where clustering dominates and the scale at which…

The homogeneity scale, $R_{\rm H}$, offers a fundamental test of the Cosmological Principle, yet it has not yet been measured with 21cm intensity mapping surveys. A key limitation for such a measurement is the telescope beam, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Bruno B. Bizarria , Camila P. Novaes , Felipe Avila , Rahima Mokeddem , Helissa H. da Costa , Carlos A. Wuensche , Gabriel A. S. Silva