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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…

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

The most commonly used estimators of the anisotropic galaxy power spectrum employ Fast Fourier transforms, and rely on a specific choice of the line-of-sight that breaks the symmetry between the galaxy pair. This leads to wide-angle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-14 Florian Beutler , Emanuele Castorina , Pierre Zhang

Various data analyses of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provide observational hints of statistical isotropy breaking. Some of these features can be studied within the framework of primordial vector fields in inflationary theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 N. Bartolo , E. Dimastrogiovanni , M. Liguori , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

The paucity of observed supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) may imply that the gravitational wave background (GWB) from this population is anisotropic, rendering existing analyses sub-optimal. We present the first constraints on the…

We analyse the anisotropic clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS Data Release 11 sample, which consists of $690 827$ galaxies in the redshift range $0.43 < z < 0.70$ and has a sky coverage of $8 498$ deg$^2$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Héctor Gil-Marín , Jorge Noreña , Licia Verde , Will J. Percival , Christian Wagner , Marc Manera , Donald P. Schneider

We perform observational tests of statistical isotropy using data from large-scale structure surveys spanning a wide range of wavelengths. Using data from 2MASS, 2MRS, and NVSS galaxies, and BATSE gamma-ray bursts, we constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-10 Cameron Gibelyou , Dragan Huterer

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

As well as the galaxy number density and peculiar velocity, the galaxy intrinsic alignment can be used to test the cosmic isotropy. We study distinctive impacts of the isotropy breaking on the configuration-space two-point correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-11 Maresuke Shiraishi , Teppei Okumura , Kazuyuki Akitsu

We consider the possibility that the primordial curvature perturbation is direction-dependent. To first order this is parameterised by a quadrupolar modulation of the power spectrum and results in statistical anisotropy of the CMB, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-15 Amel Durakovic , Paul Hunt , Suvodip Mukherjee , Subir Sarkar , Tarun Souradeep

We present a detailed statistical study of the observed anisotropy in radio polarizations from distant extragalactic objects. This anisotropy was earlier found by Birch (1982) and reconfirmed by Jain and Ralston (1999) in a larger data set.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pankaj Jain , S. Sarala

Features in the primordial power spectrum represent the imprinted signal in the density perturbations of the physics and evolution of the early Universe. A measurement of such signals will represents the need to go beyond the minimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-23 Mario Ballardini , Fabio Finelli , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Alfonso Veropalumbo

We measure the three-dimensional cross-power spectrum of galaxy density and intrinsic alignment (IA) fields for the first time from the spectroscopic and imaging data of SDSS-III BOSS galaxies, for each of the four samples in the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Toshiki Kurita , Masahiro Takada

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…

We present a novel method to compress galaxy clustering three-point statistics and apply it to redshift space galaxy bispectrum monopole measurements from BOSS DR12 CMASS data considering a $k$-space range of $0.03-0.12\,h/\mathrm{Mpc}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-07 Davide Gualdi , Héctor Gil-Marín , Marc Manera , Benjamin Joachimi , Ofer Lahav

We propose and develop a formalism to describe and constrain statistically anisotropic primordial perturbations. Starting from a decomposition of the primordial power spectrum in spherical harmonics, we find how the temperature fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Armendariz-Picon

We explore the cosmological implications of anisotropic clustering measurements in configuration space of the final galaxy samples from Data Release 12 of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. We implement a new detailed…

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

We investigate the prospects for probing large-scale statistical anisotropy through galaxy clustering and intrinsic alignments (IA) in Stage IV galaxy surveys. Specifically, we consider a dipolar modulation in the primordial power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Keita Minato , Atsushi Taruya , Teppei Okumura , Maresuke Shiraishi