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The DESI Legacy Survey is a digital sky survey with a large footprint compared to other Earth-based surveys, covering both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. This paper shows the distribution of the spin directions of spiral galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Lior Shamir

A dataset of 126,501 spiral galaxies taken from Sloan Digital Sky Survey was used to analyze the large-scale galaxy handedness in different regions of the local universe. The analysis was automated by using a transformation of the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Lior Shamir

In this article I extend an earlier study of spiral galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to investigate whether the universe has an overall handedness. A preference for spiral galaxies in one sector of the sky to be left-handed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-17 Michael J. Longo

In this article I study the distribution of spiral galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to investigate whether the universe has an overall handedness. A preference for spiral galaxies in one sector of the sky to be left-handed or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-26 Michael J. Longo

The ability to collect unprecedented amounts of astronomical data has enabled the studying scientific questions that were impractical to study in the pre-information era. This study uses large datasets collected by four different robotic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-02 Lior Shamir

Multiple previous studies using several different probes have shown considerable evidence for the existence of cosmological-scale anisotropy and a Hubble-scale axis. One of the probes that show such evidence is the distribution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Lior Shamir

In this article I extend an earlier study of spiral galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to investigate whether the universe has an overall handedness. A preference for spiral galaxies in one sector of the sky to be left-handed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-19 Michael J. Longo

In the past several decades, multiple cosmological theories that are based on the contention that the Universe has a major axis have been proposed. Such theories can be based on the geometry of the Universe, or multiverse theories such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Lior Shamir

Observation has not yet determined whether the distribution of spin vectors of galaxies is truly random. It is unclear whether is there any large-scale symmetry-breaking in the distribution of the vorticity field in the universe. Here, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Masanori Iye , Masafumi Yagi , Hideya Fukumoto

Galaxies are not distributed randomly throughout space but are instead arranged in an intricate "cosmic web" of filaments and walls surrounding bubble-like voids. There is still no compelling observational evidence of a link between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ignacio Trujillo , Conrado Carretero , Santiago G. Patiri

Observations of non-random distribution of galaxies with opposite spin directions have recently attracted considerable attention. Here, a method for identifying cosine-dependence in a dataset of galaxies annotated by their spin directions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Lior Shamir

A detailed analysis of the galaxy distribution in the Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS) by means of the multifractal or scaling formalism is presented. It is shown that galaxies cluster in different ways according to their morphological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Campos , R. Dominguez-Tenreiro , G. Yepes

The distribution of the spin directions of spiral galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has been a topic of debate in the past two decades, with conflicting conclusions reported even in cases where the same data was used. Here we follow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Darius McAdam , Lior Shamir

The distribution of smaller satellite galaxies around large central galaxies has attracted attention because peculiar spatial and kinematic configurations have been detected in some systems. A particularly striking example of such behavior…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Noam I Libeskind , Quan Guo , Elmo Tempel , Rodrigo Ibata

The angular momentum of galaxies (galaxy spin) contains rich information about the initial condition of the Universe, yet it is challenging to efficiently measure the spin direction for the tremendous amount of galaxies that are being…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 He Jia , Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen

Whether the spiral structure of galaxies is trailing or leading has been a subject of debate. We present a new spin parity catalog of 146 spiral galaxies that lists the following three pieces of information: whether the spiral structure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Masanori Iye , Kenichi Tadaki , Hideya Fukumoto

Observations of the clustering of galaxies can provide useful information about the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. In order to extract accurate cosmological parameters from galaxy surveys, it is important to understand how the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Surhud More

The spin of galaxy clusters encodes key information about their formation, dynamics, and the influence of large-scale structure. However, whether clusters possess statistically significant spin and how to measure it observationally remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-25 Xiao-xiao Tang , Peng Wang , Yu Rong , Weiguang cui , Min Bao

We discover alignment of galaxies in clusters by analyzing the distribution of their position angles. We assume that galaxies are aligned, if their number at one 90deg position angle interval is more than twice higher than at another 90deg…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-08 Hrant M. Tovmassian , J. P. Torres-Papaqui

We investigate the angular and kinematic distributions of satellite galaxies around a large sample of bright isolated primaries in the spectroscopic and photometric catalogues of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We detect significant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-14 Marius Cautun , Wenting Wang , Carlos S. Frenk , Till Sawala