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most citedThe Cosmic Dipole in the Quaia Sample of Quasars: A Bayesian Analysis

24 citations · 35 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

The Cosmic Radio Dipole and Observer Effects in SKA all-sky surveys

D. Bertacca, L. Böhme, B. Bottazzi Baldi +13

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will observe our Universe on the largest scales and so enable the study of fundamental assumptions in cosmology, such as cosmic homogeneity and iso…

astro-ph.CO2026

Simulation-based tension quantification of the cosmic dipole

Mali Land-Strykowski, Harry T. J. Bevins, Oliver T. Oayda +1

The cosmic dipole measured in surveys of cosmologically distant sources consistently exceeds the expectation derived from the cosmic microwave background, posing a significant chal…

astro-ph.CO2026

Wising up to CatWISE: using simulation-based inference to interpret the ecliptic bias and confirm the cosmic dipole excess

Oliver T. Oayda, Geraint F. Lewis

We apply Simulation-Based Inference ('SBI') to the cosmic dipole problem for the first time, measuring the distribution of quasar counts over the sky in the CatWISE2020 ('CatWISE')…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Cosmic Multipoles in Galaxy Surveys II: Comparing Different Methods in Assessing the Cosmic Dipole

Vasudev Mittal, Oliver T. Oayda, Geraint F. Lewis

We present a comparative analysis of estimators and Bayesian methods for determining the number count dipole from cosmological surveys. The increase in discordance between the numb…

astro-ph.CO2024

Cosmic Multipoles in Galaxy Surveys Part I: How Inferences Depend on Source Counts and Masks

Oliver T. Oayda, Vasudev Mittal, Geraint F. Lewis

We present a new approach to constructing and fitting dipoles and higher-order multipoles in synthetic galaxy samples over the sky. Within our Bayesian paradigm, we illustrate that…

astro-ph.CO2024

A Bayesian approach to the cosmic dipole in radio galaxy surveys: Joint analysis of NVSS & RACS

Oliver T. Oayda, Vasudev Mittal, Geraint F. Lewis +1

We examine the sky distribution of radio galaxies in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) and the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). Analyses of these samples have reported tension bet…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 24 cited

The Cosmic Dipole in the Quaia Sample of Quasars: A Bayesian Analysis

Vasudev Mittal, Oliver T. Oayda, Geraint F. Lewis

We present a Bayesian analysis of the Quaia sample of 1.3 million quasars as a test of the cosmological principle. This principle postulates that the universe is homogeneous and is…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 8 cited

Testing the Cosmological Principle: On the Time Dilation of Distant Sources

Oliver T. Oayda, Geraint F. Lewis

We present a novel test of the cosmological principle: the idea that, on sufficiently large scales, the universe should appear homogeneous and isotropic to observers comoving with…