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HINORA, a method for detecting ring-like structures in 3D point distributions I: Application to the Local Volume Galaxy catalogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2024

Edward Olex Open the ORCID record for Edward Olex [Opens in a new window] ,
Alexander Knebe ,
Noam I. Libeskind ,
Dmitry I. Makarov  and
Stefan Gottlöber
Edward Olex*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física Teórica, Módulo 15, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Alexander Knebe
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física Teórica, Módulo 15, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Física Fundamental (CIAFF), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
Noam I. Libeskind
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
Dmitry I. Makarov
Affiliation:
Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Arkhyz, 369167 Russia
Stefan Gottlöber
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
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Corresponding author: Edward Olex, Email: edward.olex@estudiante.uam.es
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Abstract

We present a new method – called HINORA (HIgh-NOise RANdom SAmple Consensus) – for the identification of regular structures in 3D point distributions. Motivated by the possible existence of the so-called Council of Giants, that is, a ring of 12 massive galaxies surrounding the Local Group in the Local Sheet with a radius of 3.75 Mpc, we apply HINORA to the Local Volume Galaxy catalogue confirming its existence. When varying the lower limit of K-band luminosity of the galaxy entering the catalogue, we further report on the existence of another ring-like structure in the Local Volume that now contains the Milky Way and M31. However, this newly found structure is dominated by low-mass (satellite) galaxies. While we here simply present the novel method as well as its first application to observational data, follow-up work using numerical simulations of cosmic structure formation shall shed light into the origin of such regular patterns in the galaxy distribution. Further, the method is equally suited to identify similar (or even different) structures in various kinds of astrophysical data (e.g. locating the actual ‘baryonic-acoustic oscillation spheres’ in galaxy redshift surveys).

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galaxies: haloeslocal groupcosmology: theorydark matterlarge-scale structure
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 41 , 2024 , e018
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