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We use the recently completed redshift-distance survey of nearby early-type galaxies (ENEAR) to measure the dipole component of the peculiar velocity field to a depth of cz ~ 6000 km/s. The sample consists of 1145 galaxies brighter than…

As tracers of the underlying mass distributions, the peculiar velocities of galaxies are valuable probes of the Universe, allowing us to measure the Hubble constant or to map the large-scale structure and its dynamics. The catalogs of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 C. Duangchan , A. Valade , N. I. Libeskind , M. Steinmetz

An exact description is provided of an almost spherical fluid vesicle with a fixed area and a fixed enclosed volume locally deformed by external normal forces bringing two nearby points on the surface together symmetrically. The conformal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-17 Jemal Guven , Pablo Vázquez-Montejo

The $\Lambda$ cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) standard cosmological model is in severe tension with several cosmological observations. Foremost is the Hubble tension, which exceeds $5\sigma$ confidence. Galaxy number counts show the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Sergij Mazurenko , Indranil Banik , Pavel Kroupa , Moritz Haslbauer

We calculate the off--center observational relations in a spherically symmetric dust universe that is inhomogeneous at small redshifts. In contrast to the usual model, in which the CMBR dipole is interpreted as a Doppler effect due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Neil Humphreys , Roy Maartens , David Matravers

A spherical cosmological model with a local void on scales of $\sim 200$ Mpc and with an inhomogeneous Hubble constant was proposed in recent two papers. This model explains consistently the observed properties of the cosmic bulk flow, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kenji Tomita

The Local Group (LG) of galaxies is dominated by the M31 and Milky Way (MW) pair, a configuration which suggests that the mass distribution in the LG and its surroundings should be highly anisotropic. We use the APOSTLE cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-05 Isabel M. E. Santos-Santos , Julio F. Navarro , Alan McConnachie

This article explores an update to the cosmography of the local Universe within z=0.1, incorporating galaxy peculiar velocity datasets from the first data releases of WALLABY, FAST, and DESI surveys. The galaxies with peculiar velocities…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Helene M. Courtois , Jeremy Mould , Amber M. Hollinger , Alexandra Dupuy , Chuan-Peng Zhang

Cosmography is a widely applied method to infer kinematics of the Universe at small cosmological scales while remaining agnostic about the theory of gravity at play. Usually cosmologists invoke the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Hayley J. Macpherson , Asta Heinesen

The assumption of isotropy -- that the Universe looks the same in all directions on large scales -- is fundamental to the standard cosmological model. This model forms the building blocks of essentially all of our cosmological knowledge to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-29 Jessica A. Cowell , Suhail Dhawan , Hayley J. Macpherson

The Universe expansion rate is modulated around local inhomogeneities due to their gravitational potential. Velocity waves are then observed around galaxy clusters in the Hubble diagram. This paper studies them in a ~738 Mpc wide, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Jenny G. Sorce , Roya Mohayaee , Nabila Aghanim , Klaus Dolag , Nicola Malavasi

Magnetic fields of low-mass stars and planets are thought to originate from self-excited dynamo action in their convective interiors. Observations reveal a variety of field topologies ranging from large-scale, axial dipole to more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Martin Schrinner , Ludovic Petitdemange , Emmanuel Dormy

The hard X-ray (>2 keV) emission of the local and distant Universe as observed with the HEAO1-A2 experiment is reconsidered in the context of large scale cosmic structure. Using all-sky X-ray samples of AGN and galaxy clusters we remove the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. A. Scharf , K. Jahoda , M. Treyer , O. Lahav , E. Boldt , T. Piran

The local Universe displays a rich hierarchical pattern of galaxy clusters and superclusters. The early Universe, however, was almost smooth, with only slight 'ripples' seen in the cosmic microwave background radiation. Models of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Coles , Lung-Yih Chiang

The evolution of marginally bound supercluster-like objects in an accelerating LambdaCDM Universe is followed, by means of cosmological simulations, from the present time to an expansion factor a = 100. The objects are identified on the…

Corresponding to the recent observational claims that we are in a local void (an underdense region) on scales of 200 - 300 Mpc, the magnitude-redshift relation in a cosmological model with a local void is investigated. It is already evident…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Kenji Tomita

Cosmicflows-3 distances and inferred peculiar velocities of galaxies have permitted the reconstruction of the structure of over and under densities within the volume extending to 0.05c. This study focuses on the under dense regions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 R Brent Tully , Daniel Pomarede , Romain Graziani , Helene M Courtois , Yehuda Hoffman , Edward J Shaya

We develop an effective description of the local cosmic environment, namely, for redshift $z \lesssim 0.1$, to quantify the bias induced by local structure on cosmological observables. Our approach models the metric of the nearby Universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Marco Galoppo , Leonardo Giani , Morag Hills , Aurélien Valade

Velocity and density field reconstructions of the volume of the universe within 0.05c derived from the Cosmicflows-3 catalog of galaxy distances has revealed the presence of a filamentary structure extending across ~ 0.11c. The structure,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-10 Daniel Pomarede , R. Brent Tully , Romain Graziani , Helene M. Courtois , Y. Hoffman , Jeremy Lezmy

We investigate the kinematic properties of gas and galaxies in the Local Group (LG) using high-resolution simulations performed by the {\sc Hestia} (High-resolution Environmental Simulations of The Immediate Area) collaboration. Our…