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Anisotropy in Pantheon+ supernovae

Abstract:
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 well as the Local Group frame. In all frames, the Hubble expansion rate in the redshift range 0.023 < z < 0.15 is found to have a statistically significant dipolar variation exceeding 1.5 km s−1 Mpc−1 , i.e. bigger than the claimed 1% uncertainty in the SH0ES measurement of the Hubble parameter H0. The deceleration parameter too has a redshift-dependent dipolar modulation at > 5σ significance, consistent with previous findings using the SDSSII/SNLS3 Joint Lightcurve Analysis catalogue. The inferred cosmic acceleration cannot therefore be due to a Cosmological Constant, but is likely a general relativistic effect due to the anomalous bulk flow in our local Universe.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14222-w

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Theoretical Physics
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Publisher:
Springer
Journal:
European Physical Journal C More from this journal
Volume:
85
Issue:
5
Article number:
596
Publication date:
2025-05-30
Acceptance date:
2025-04-24
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EISSN:
1434-6052
ISSN:
1434-6044


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English
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Pubs id:
2119785
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pubs:2119785
Deposit date:
2025-04-26

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