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No evidence for anisotropy in galaxy spin directions

Observational constraint: Bayesian and frequentist analyses of public spin catalogues find consistency with isotropy within 3σ. This does not exclude every directional signal or every possible model.

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Dhruva Patel; Harry Desmond (2024). No evidence for anisotropy in galaxy spin directions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 534(2), 1553–1560.

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2158

Observational constraint: Bayesian and frequentist analyses of public spin catalogues find consistency with isotropy within 3σ. This does not exclude every directional signal or every possible model.

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