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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 106, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.241301
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- UCL's Institute of Origins
- Royal Society via a Royal Society URF
- Royal Society
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We observe a large excess of power in the statistical clustering of luminous red galaxies in the photometric SDSS galaxy sample called MegaZ DR7. This is seen over the lowest multipoles in the angular power spectra C-l in four equally spaced redshift bins between 0: 45 <= z <= 0: 65. However, it is most prominent in the highest redshift band at similar to 4 sigma and it emerges at an effective scale k less than or similar to 0: 01 h Mpc(-1). Given that MegaZ DR7 is the largest cosmic volume galaxy survey to date (3.3(Gpch(-1))(3)) this implies an anomaly on the largest physical scales probed by galaxies. Alternatively, this signature could be a consequence of it appearing at the most systematically susceptible redshift. There are several explanations for this excess power that range from systematics to new physics. We test the survey, data, and excess power, as well as possible origins.
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