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We use the BOSS DR12 galaxy power spectrum to constrain compensated isocurvature perturbations (CIP), which are opposite-sign primordial baryon and dark matter perturbations that leave the total matter density unchanged. Long-wavelength CIP…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-06 Alexandre Barreira

Primordial statistical anisotropy is a key indicator to investigate early Universe models and has been probed by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. In this paper, we examine tensor-mode CMB fluctuations generated from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-29 Maresuke Shiraishi , David F. Mota , Angelo Ricciardone , Frederico Arroja

Two sources of geometric information are encoded in the galaxy power spectrum: the sound horizon at recombination and the horizon at matter-radiation equality. Analyzing the BOSS DR12 galaxy power spectra using perturbation theory with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Blake D. Sherwin , Gerrit S. Farren , Eric J. Baxter

We study statistical anisotropies generated in the observed two-point function of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations if the primordial statistics are non-Gaussian. Focusing on the dipole modulations of the anisotropies, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 Saroj Adhikari , Anne-Sylvie Deutsch , Sarah Shandera

We consider the benefits of measuring cosmic statistical anisotropy from redshift-space correlators of the galaxy number density fluctuation and the peculiar velocity field without adopting the plane-parallel (PP) approximation. Since the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Maresuke Shiraishi , Teppei Okumura , Kazuyuki Akitsu

We constrain several models of the early Universe that predict a statistical anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky. We make use of WMAP9 maps deconvolved with beam asymmetries. As compared to previous releases of WMAP…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-03 Sabir Ramazanov , Grigory Rubtsov

We use information entropy to analyze the anisotropy in the mock galaxy catalogues from dark matter distribution and simulated biased galaxy distributions from $\Lambda$CDM N-body simulation. We show that one can recover the linear bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-05 Biswajit Pandey

We perform a Bayesian analysis of anisotropy in binary galaxy spin directions in the Hyper-Suprime Cam Data Release 3 catalogue, in response to a recent claim that it exhibits a dipole (Shamir 2024). We find no significant evidence for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-14 Richard Stiskalek , Harry Desmond

We analyse the clustering of cosmic large scale structure using a consistent modified gravity perturbation theory, accounting for anisotropic effects along and transverse to the line of sight. The growth factor has a particular scale…

We present the first targeted measurement of the power spectrum of anisotropies of the radio synchrotron background, at 140 MHz where it is the overwhelmingly dominant photon background. This measurement is important for understanding the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 A. R. Offringa , J. Singal , S. Heston , S. Horiuchi , D. M. Lucero

We use the joint measurement of geometry and growth from anisotropic galaxy clustering in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 9 CMASS sample reported by Reid et al. to constrain dark energy properties and possible…

The bispectrum of primordial curvature perturbations in the squeezed configuration, in which one wavenumber, $k_3$, is much smaller than the other two, $k_3\ll k_1\approx k_2$, plays a special role in constraining the physics of inflation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-07 Maresuke Shiraishi , Eiichiro Komatsu , Marco Peloso , Neil Barnaby

Pulsar-timing arrays (PTAs) are seeking gravitational waves from supermassive-black-hole binaries, and there are prospects to complement these searches with stellar-astrometry measurements. Theorists still disagree, however, as to whether…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-19 Selim C. Hotinli , Marc Kamionkowski , Andrew H. Jaffe

The motion of the solar system against an isotropic radiation background, such as the cosmic microwave background, induces a dipole anisotropy in the background due to the Doppler effect. Flux-limited observation of the continuum radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Kyungjin Ahn

We present a reanalysis of the VIRMOS-Descart weak lensing data, with a particular focus on different corrections for the variation of the point spread function anisotropy (PSF) across the CCDs. We show that the small scale systematics can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Van Waerbeke , Y. Mellier , H. Hoekstra

We investigate the potential sources of theoretical systematics in the anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distance scale measurements from the clustering of galaxies in configuration space using the final Data Release (DR12) of…

Cosmic microwave background measurements show an agreement with the concordance cosmology model except for a few notable anomalies: Power Suppression, the lack of large scale power in the temperature data compared to what is expected in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-20 Shabbir Shaikh , Suvodip Mukherjee , Santanu Das , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Tarun Souradeep

There has been growing interest in the possibility of testing more precisely the assumption of statistical isotropy of primordial density perturbations. If it is to be tested with galaxy surveys at distance scales <~ 10 Mpc, then nonlinear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shin'ichiro Ando , Marc Kamionkowski

The observed distribution of galaxies has local transverse isotropy around the line-of- sight (LOS) with respect to the observer. The difference in the statistical clustering signal along and across the line-of-sight encodes important…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-13 Lado Samushia , Enzo Branchini , Will Percival