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In this manuscript, we show that three fundamental building blocks are supporting the Cosmological Principle. The first of them states that there is a special frame in the universe where the spatial geometry is intrinsically homogeneous and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-05 Leandro G. Gomes

Deviations from statistical isotropy can be modeled in various ways, for instance, anisotropic cosmological models (Bianchi models), compact topologies and presence of primordial magnetic field. Signature of anisotropy manifests itself in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 Nidhi Joshi , Sanjay Jhingan , Tarun Souradeep , Amir Hajian

Homogeneous, nearly-isotropic Bianchi cosmological models are considered. Their time evolution is expressed as a complete set of non-interacting linear modes on top of a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background model. This connects the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-08 Andrew Pontzen , Anthony Challinor

A new method is proposed for modelling spherically symmetric inhomogeneities in the Universe. The inhomogeneities have finite size and are compensated, so they do not exert any measurable gravitational force beyond their boundary. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. N. Lasenby , C. J. L. Doran , M. P. Hobson , Y. Dabrowski , A. D. Challinor

Astronomical observations suggest that the Universe may be anisotropic on the largest scales. In order to model this situation, we develop a new approach to cosmology that allows for large-scale anisotropy to emerge from the growth of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-26 Theodore Anton , Timothy Clifton

Assuming that the cosmological principle holds, Maartens, Ellis and Stoeger (MES) recently constructed a detailed scheme linking anisotropies in the cosmic background radiation (CMB) with anisotropies and inhomogeneities in the large scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-01 William Stoeger , Marcelo Araujo , Tim Gebbie

The analysis of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has become an extremely valuable tool for cosmology. We even have hopes that planned CMB anisotropy experiments may revolutionize cosmology. Together with determinations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Ruth Durrer

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. We have developed a new method for calculating the CMB anisotropy in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tarun Souradeep , Dmitry Pogosyan , J. Richard Bond

We extend the standard theory of cosmological perturbations to homogeneous but anisotropic universes. We present an exhaustive computation for the case of a Bianchi I model, with a residual isotropy between two spatial dimensions, which is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. E. Gumrukcuoglu , Carlo R. Contaldi , Marco Peloso

The current suite of results from Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy experiments is fulfilling the promise of providing extraordinary levels of discrimination between cosmological models. We calculate a binned anisotropy power spectrum,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena Pierpaoli , Douglas Scott , Martin White

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

We explore the Hubble tension within an anisotropic cosmological framework by revisiting the Bianchi type-I model introduced in Le Delliou et al. 2020. Motivated by ongoing debates surrounding back-reaction effects and observed anomalies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Maksym Deliyergiyev , Morgan Le Delliou , Antonino Del Popolo

Cosmology is built on a relativistic understanding of gravity, where the geometry of the Universe is dynamically determined by matter and energy. In the cosmological concordance model, gravity is described by General Relativity, and it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Theodore Anton

Cosmic Microwave Background anomalies suggest that the Universe is slightly anisotropic, so a Cosmological Model that does not satisfy the Cosmological Principle is necessary. Anisotropic Bianchi models have been studied given that they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-07 Ericsson López , Mario Llerena

On the largest scales, the universe appears to be almost homogeneous and isotropic, adhering to the cosmological principle. In contrast, on smaller scales inhomogeneities and anisotropy become increasingly prominent, reflecting the origin,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Robbert W. Scholtens , Marcello Seri , Holger Waalkens , Rien van de Weygaert

CMB anisotropy data could put powerful constraints on theories of the evolution of our Universe. Using the observations of the large number of CMB experiments, many studies have put constraints on cosmological parameters assuming different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marian Douspis

The anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are computed for the half-turn space E_2 which represents a compact flat model of the Universe, i.e. one with finite volume. This model is inhomogeneous in the sense that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Aurich , S. Lustig

In this article, we propose an anisotropic Bianchi-I type cosmological model in non-conservative Unimodular Gravity ($\mathrm{NUG}$). We show that simply using the Bianchi-I type metric does not resolve a striking characteristic of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Marcelo H. Alvarenga , Júlio C. Fabris

This article describes the theory of cosmological perturbations around a homogeneous and anisotropic universe of the Bianchi I type. Starting from a general parameterisation of the perturbed spacetime a la Bardeen, a complete set of gauge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thiago S. Pereira , Cyril Pitrou , Jean-Philippe Uzan

We consider the issue of characterizing the coherent large-scale patterns from CMB temperature maps in globally anisotropic cosmologies. The methods we investigate are reasonably general; the particular models we test them on are the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Rockhee Sung , Jo Short , Peter Coles