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The cosmological principle, asserting large-scale homogeneity and isotropy, underpins the standard model of cosmology. Testing its validity using independent astronomical probes remains crucial for understanding the global structure of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Debosi Mondal , Biswajit Pandey , Amit Mondal

Gamma ray source detection above 30TeV is an encouraging approach for finding galactic cosmic ray origins. All sky survey for gamma ray sources using wide field of view detector is essential for population accumulation for various types of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Zhen Cao

The cosmological principle has been verified using electromagnetic (EM) observations. However its verification with high accuracy is challenging due to various foregrounds and selection effects, and possible violation of the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 Mingzheng Li , Pengjie Zhang , Wen Zhao

We examine the sky distribution of radio galaxies in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) and the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). Analyses of these samples have reported tension between their inferred dipoles and the kinematic dipole of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 Oliver T. Oayda , Vasudev Mittal , Geraint F. Lewis , Tara Murphy

The arrival direction distribution of cosmic ray particles observed on Earth is shaped by the cumulative effects of their galactic source locations and of trajectory bending in the turbulent interstellar magnetic field. Coherent magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-02 J. C. Díaz-Vélez , Paolo Desiati

One of the open issues of the standard cosmological model is the value of the cosmic dipole measured from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), as well as from the number count of quasars and radio sources. These measurements are currently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-09 S. Mastrogiovanni , C. Bonvin , G. Cusin , S. Foffa

Measurements of the number count dipole with large surveys have shown amplitudes in tension with kinematic predictions based on the observed Doppler dipole of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). These observations seem to be in direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 J. D. Wagenveld , S. von Hausegger , H-R. Klöckner , D. J. Schwarz

Motivated by the ~7 % dipole anisotropy in the distribution of ultra-high energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) above 8 EeV, we explore the anisotropy induced by the large scale structure, using constrained simulations of the local Universe and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Noémie Globus , Tsvi Piran , Yehuda Hoffman , Edoardo Carlesi , Daniel Pomarède

We study anisotropy of cosmic rays in the energy range 0.2-1.4 EeV at intermediate angular scales using the public data set of the Pierre Auger Observatory. At certain scales, the analysis reveals a number of deviations from the isotropic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-23 M. Yu. Zotov

The arrival directions of TeV-PeV cosmic rays are remarkably uniform due to the isotropization of their directions by scattering on turbulent magnetic fields. Small anisotropies can exist in standard diffusion models, however, only on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Marco Kuhlen , Vo Hong Minh Phan , Philipp Mertsch

The methodical properties of the original difference method for the search of the anisotropy at the knee region of the primary cosmic radiation energy spectrum are analyzed. The main feature of the suggested method is a study of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-01 V. P. Pavlyuchenko , R. M. Martirosov , N. M. Nikolskaya , A. D. Erlykin

We outline the science motivation for SGSO, the Southern Gamma-Ray Survey Observatory. SGSO will be a next-generation wide field-of-view gamma-ray survey instrument, sensitive to gamma-rays in the energy range from 100 GeV to hundreds of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-25 A. Albert , R. Alfaro , H. Ashkar , C. Alvarez , J. Álvarez , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , H. A. Ayala Solares , R. Arceo , J. A. Bellido , S. BenZvi , T. Bretz , C. A. Brisbois , A. M. Brown , F. Brun , K. S. Caballero-Mora , A. Carosi , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , P. M. Chadwick , G. Cotter , S. Coutiño De León , P. Cristofari , S. Dasso , E. de la Fuente , B. L. Dingus , P. Desiati , F. de O. Salles , V. de Souza , D. Dorner , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , J. A. García-González , M. A. DuVernois , G. Di Sciascio , K. Engel , H. Fleischhack , N. Fraija , S. Funk , J-F. Glicenstein , J. Gonzalez , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , J. P. Harding , A. Haungs , J. Hinton , B. Hona , D. Hoyos , P. Huentemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , S. Kaufmann , K. Kawata , S. Kunwar , J. Lefaucheur , J. -P. Lenain , K. Link , R. López-Coto , V. Marandon , M. Mariotti , J. Martínez-Castro , H. Martínez-Huerta , M. Mostafá , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , R. D. Parsons , B. Patricelli , A. Pichel , Q. Piel , E. Prandini , E. Pueschel , S. Procureur , A. Reisenegger , C. Rivière , J. Rodriguez , A. C. Rovero , G. Rowell , E. L. Ruiz-Velasco , A. Sandoval , M. Santander , T. Sako , T. K. Sako , K. Satalecka , H. Schoorlemmer , F. Schüssler , M. Seglar-Arroyo , A. J. Smith , S. Spencer , P. Surajbali , E. Tabachnick , A. M. Taylor , O. Tibolla , I. Torres , B. Vallage , A. Viana , J. J. Watson , T. Weisgarber , F. Werner , R. White , R. Wischnewski , R. Yang , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou

A measurement of the dipole anisotropy in galactic coordinates for different charged cosmic rays has been performed with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Results are presented for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 M. Molero , J. Casaus , C. Mana , M. A. Velasco , I. Gebauer , M. Graziani , M. Gervasi , G. La Vacca , P. G. Rancoita

Cosmic ray anisotropy has been observed in a wide energy range and at different angular scales by a variety of experiments over the past decade. However, no comprehensive or satisfactory explanation has been put forth to date. The arrival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-12 Vanessa López-Barquero , R. Farber , S. Xu , P. Desiati , A. Lazarian

In this paper, we study the anisotropy of cosmic acceleration by dividing the Union2 Type Ia supernova dataset into 12 subsets according to their positions in Galactic coordinate system. In each region, we derive the deceleration parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-17 W. Zhao , P. X. Wu , Y. Zhang

Under the assumption that the recent pulsar timing array evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background at nanohertz frequencies is generated by metastable cosmic strings, we analyze the potential of present and future GW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-08 Stefan Antusch , Kevin Hinze , Shaikh Saad , Jonathan Steiner

We probe the anisotropy of the large-scale structure (LSS) with the WISE-2MASS catalogue. This analysis is performed by a directional comparison of the galaxy number counts through the entire celestial sphere once systematic effects, such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-23 C. A. P. Bengaly , A. Bernui , J. S. Alcaniz , H. S. Xavier , C. P. Novaes

Identifying the anisotropies in a cosmologically sourced stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) would be of significance in shedding light on the nature of primordial inhomogeneities. For example, if SGWB carries isocurvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Yanou Cui , Soubhik Kumar , Raman Sundrum , Yuhsin Tsai

This paper proposes and discusses a test of the chemical composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays that relies on the anisotropy patterns measured as a function of energy. In particular, we show that if one records an anisotropy signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin Lemoine , Eli Waxman

Recent results of Milagro, Tibet, ARGO-YBJ and IceCube experiments on the small-scale anisotropy of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) with energies from units up to a few hundred TeV arise a question on a possible nature of the observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-09 M. Yu. Zotov , G. V. Kulikov