The local galaxy distribution does not violate the cosmological principle

arXiv:2607.01172 · astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-01 · Read on arXiv

Till Sawala

University of Helsinki

astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-07-01

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures, accepted in ApJ Letters. Full analysis code is included

Code: https://github.com/TillSawala/DESI-FLAMINGO

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Clustering — 22× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anisotropy — 20× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Homogeneity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• National Science Foundation — 3× in this paper
• Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument — 2× in this paper
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bright Galaxy Survey — 1× in this paper
• Feature Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• The FLAMINGO simulations data release
• Investigating Ultra-Large Large-Scale Structures: Potential Implications for Cosmology
• The Physics of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

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