3 papers
astro-ph.CO2026
The Ellis and Baldwin test of the Cosmic Dipole: Exploring the impact of multiple flux density cuts
Vasudev Mittal, Geraint F. Lewis
The cosmic dipole tension - the discrepancy between the Cosmic Microwave Background kinematic dipole and the matter dipole inferred from all-sky surveys poses a significant challen…
astro-ph.CO2025
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…