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The question of the transition to global isotropy from our anisotropic local Universe is studied using the Union 2 catalogue of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). We construct a "residual" statistic sensitive to systematic shifts in their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jacques Colin , Roya Mohayaee , Subir Sarkar , Arman Shafieloo

A combined sample of 79 high and low redshift supernovae Ia (SNe) is used to set constraints on the degree of anisotropy in the Universe out to $z\simeq1$. First we derive the global most probable values of matter density $\Omega_M $, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tsafrir S. Kolatt , Ofer Lahav

We employ the hemisphere comparison (HC) method and the dipole fitting (DF) method to investigate the cosmic anisotropy in the recently released Pantheon sample of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and five combinations among Pantheon. For the HC…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-21 Dong Zhao , Yong Zhou , Zhe Chang

We have shown (Colin et al., 2019) that the acceleration of the Hubble expansion rate inferred from Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is, at $3.9\sigma$ significance, a dipole approximately aligned with the CMB dipole, while its monopole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-24 Jacques Colin , Roya Mohayaee , Mohamed Rameez , Subir Sarkar

We employ the Union compilation of Type Ia supernovae with a maximum likelihood analysis to search for a dark energy dipole. To approach this problem, we present a simple, computationally efficient, and largely model independent method. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Cooke , D. Lynden-Bell

We test the isotropy of the local Universe using low redshift supernova data from various catalogs and the non-parametric method of smoothed residuals. Using a recently developed catalog which combines supernova data from various surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Stephen Appleby , Arman Shafieloo , Andrew Johnson

The cosmological principle assumes the isotropy of the Universe at large scales. It is a foundational assumption in the $\Lambda$CDM model, which is the current standard model of cosmology. Recent tensions give legitimacy to investigating…

In this paper, we study an anisotropic universe model with Bianchi-I metric using Joint Light-curve Analysis (JLA) sample of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Because light-curve parameters of SNe Ia vary with different cosmological models and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Y. Y. Wang , F. Y. Wang

We present a hemispherical comparison analysis of the deceleration parameter $q_0$ using the Pantheon+ sample of Type Ia supernovae to test the isotropy of cosmic acceleration and the robustness of redshift corrections. We detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Mauricio Lopez-Hernandez , Josue De-Santiago

The use of methods that investigate the value of the Hubble constant H$_0$ in different patches (60 $ or 90$^ size) across the sky to probe the statistical isotropy of the Universe using large SNe Ia databases has led to contradictory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Antonio Quintana-Estellés , Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente

We present a short (and necessarily incomplete) review of the evidence for the accelerated expansion of the Universe. The most direct probe of acceleration relies on the detailed study of supernovae (SN) of type Ia. Assuming that these are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-25 Dominik J. Schwarz , Benedict Bahr-Kalus , Marina Seikel

We test the possible dipole anisotropy of a Finslerian cosmological model and other three dipole-modulated cosmological models, i.e., the dipole-modulated $\rm{\Lambda}$CDM, $w$CDM and Chevallier--Polarski--Linder (CPL) model by using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-30 Zhe Chang , Dong Zhao , Yong Zhou

We investigate the validity of the Cosmological Principle by constraining the cosmological parameters $H_0$ and $q_0$ through the celestial sphere. Our analyses are performed in a low-redshift regime in order to follow a model independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-04 C. A. P. Bengaly, , A. Bernui , J. S. Alcaniz

Recent released Planck data and other astronomical observations show that the universe may be anisotropic on large scales. Inspired by this, anisotropic cosmological models have been proposed. We note that the Finsler-Randers spacetime…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-25 Zhe Chang , Xin Li , Hai-Nan Lin , Sai Wang

If the Universe is endowed with cosmic anisotropy, it will have a preferred direction of expansion. Reconstructing the expansion history by Gaussian Process (GP) can be used to probe the cosmic anisotropy model-independently. In this paper,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Zong-Fan Yang , Da-Wei Yao , Ke Wang

We propose and implement a novel, robust, and non-parametric test of statistical isotropy of the expansion of the universe, and apply it to around one thousand type Ia supernovae from the Pantheon sample. We calculate the angular clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-24 John Soltis , Arya Farahi , Dragan Huterer , C. Michael Liberato

The cosmological principle is one of the cornerstones in modern cosmology. It assumes that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic on cosmic scales. Both the homogeneity and the isotropy of the universe should be tested carefully. In the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Hua-Kai Deng , Hao Wei

We present a calibration-independent test of the accelerated expansion of the universe using supernova type Ia data. The test is also model-independent in the sense that no assumptions about the content of the universe or about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Marina Seikel , Dominik J. Schwarz

We present a model-independent test of anisotropy in the cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR), $D_L=(1+z)^2 D_A$, using the Pantheon+ type Ia supernova sample and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data. The angular diameter distance is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Pushty Shrimankar , Gopal Kashyap

We discuss recent evidence for an accelerating Universe from measurements of type Ia supernovae at high redshift, and describe tests of various systematic effects such as extinction and evolution that could be biasing the cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saurabh Jha , the High-Z Supernova Search Team