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On the anisotropic distribution of clusters in the local Universe

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, ISSN: 1745-3933, Vol: 529, Issue: 1, Page: L23-L27
2024
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Findings from Leiden University Broaden Understanding of Astronomy (On the anisotropic distribution of clusters in the local Universe)

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In his 2021 lecture to the Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, P.J.E. Peebles pointed out that the brightest extragalactic radio sources tend to be aligned with the plane of the de Vaucouleur Local Supercluster up to redshifts of z = 0.02 (d ≈ 85 Mpc). He then asked whether such an alignment of clusters is anomalous in the standard Lambda cold dark matter (ACDM) framework. In this letter, we employ an alternative, absolute orientation agnostic, measure of the anisotropy based on the inertia tensor axial ratio of these brightest sources and use a large cosmological simulation from the FLAMINGO suite to measure how common such an alignment of structures is. We find that only 3.5 per cent of randomly selected regions display an anisotropy of their clusters more extreme than the one found in the local Universe’s radio data. This sets the region around the Milky Way as a 1.85σ outlier. Varying the selection parameters of the objects in the catalogue, we find that the clusters in the local Universe are never more than 2σ away from the simulations’ prediction for the same selection. We thus conclude that the reported anisotropy, whilst noteworthy, is not in tension with the ACDM paradigm.

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