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Analysis of geostatistical data is often based on the assumption that the spatial random field is isotropic. This assumption, if erroneous, can adversely affect model predictions and statistical inference. Nowadays many applications…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-30 Indranil Sahoo , Joseph Guinness , Brian J. Reich

The measurements of CMB anisotropy have opened up a window for probing the global topology of the universe on length scales comparable to and beyond the Hubble radius. For compact topologies, the two main effects on the CMB are: (1) the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 J. Richard Bond , Dmitri Pogosyan , Tarun Souradeep

Despite its fundamental importance in cosmology, there have been very few straight-forward tests of the cosmological principle. Such tests are especially timely because of the hemispherical asymmetry in the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-19 Michael J. Longo

We use the hemisphere comparison method to test the isotropy of the SnIa absolute magnitudes of the Pantheon+ and SH0ES samples in various redshift/distance bins. We compare the identified levels of anisotropy in each bin with Monte-Carlo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Leandros Perivolaropoulos

We propose a novel method for testing isotropy of a three-dimensional distribution using Shannon entropy. We test the method on some Monte Carlo simulations of isotropic and anisotropic distributions and find that the method can effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Biswajit Pandey

Recent observations suggest that there are violations of the isotropy of the universe at large scales, an important part of the cosmological principle. In this paper, we use the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data to search for spatial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Shek Yeung , Ming-Chung Chu

In order to test the expansion of the universe and its geometry, we carry out an Alcock & Paczynski cosmological test, that is, an evaluation of the ratio of observed angular size to radial/redshift size. The main advantage of this test is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

The observational evidence regarding the present cosmological aspects tells us about the presence of very little anisotropy in the universe on a large scale. Here, in this paper, we attempt to study locally rotationally symmetric (LRS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-02 N. S. Kavya , V. Venkatesha , Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo

Cosmography is an ideal tool to investigate the cosmic expansion history of the Universe in a model-independent way. The equations of motion in modified theories of gravity are usually very complicated; cosmography may select practical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Sanjay Mandal , Deng Wang , P. K. Sahoo

Using mock data for the Hubble diagrams of type Ia supernovae (SNIa) and quasars (QSOs) generated based on the standard model of cosmology, and using the least-squares method based on the Markov-Chain-Monte-Carlo (MCMC) algorithm, we first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 S. Pourojaghi , N. F. Zabihi , M. Malekjani

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy constrains the geometry of the Universe because the positions of the acoustic peaks of the angular power spectrum depend strongly on the curvature of underlying three-dimensional space. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Dunkley , M. Bucher , P. G. Ferreira , K. Moodley , C. Skordis

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

In this work, we test the cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR) using the arbitrary redshift pivot Pad\'e-(2,1) expansion methodology developed in arXiv:2509.16196. This approach allows us to constrain cosmography parameters and test CDDR…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Shubham Barua , Sujit K. Dalui , Rikiya Okazaki , Shantanu Desai

We investigate the possible anisotropy of the universe using the most up-to-date type Ia supernovae, i.e. the Pantheon+ compilation. We fit the full Pantheon+ data with the dipole-modulated $\Lambda$CDM model, and find that it is well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-26 Li Tang , Hai-Nan Lin , Liang Liu , Xin Li

Given observations of the standard candles and the cosmic chronometers, we apply Pad\'{e} parameterization to the comoving distance and the Hubble paramter to find how stringent the constraint is set to the curvature parameter by the data.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Shi-Yu Li , Yun-Long Li , Tong-Jie Zhang , Tingting Zhang

We analyse the constraints that can be placed on a cosmological constant or quintessence-like component by combining observations of Type Ia supernovae with measurements of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. We use the recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Efstathiou

We test the tenet of statistical isotropy of the standard cosmological model via a homology analysis of the cosmic microwave background temperature maps. Examining small sectors of the normalized maps, we find that the results exhibit a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Pratyush Pranav , Thomas Buchert

We employ Maximum Likelihood Estimators to examine the Pantheon+ catalogue of Type Ia supernovae for large scale anisotropies in the expansion rate of the Universe. The analyses are carried out in the heliocentric frame, the CMB frame, as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Animesh Sah , Mohamed Rameez , Subir Sarkar , Christos Tsagas

The Cosmological Principle is a cornerstone of the standard model of cosmology and shapes how we view the Universe and our place within it. It is imperative, then, to devise multiple observational tests which can identify and quantify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 James Adam , Roy Maartens , Julien Larena , Chris Clarkson

We review, compare and extend recent studies searching for evidence for a preferred cosmological axis. We start from the Union2 SnIa dataset and use the hemisphere comparison method to search for a preferred axis in the data. We find that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 I. Antoniou , L. Perivolaropoulos