The Multipolar Structure of the Local Expansion Rate
摘要
We design a new observable, the $$\eta $$ expansion rate fluctuation, to characterize deviations from linearity and isotropy in the redshift-distance relationship in the local Universe. In order to better decipher the structure and symmetries of the anisotropies in the local expansion rate, we also show its decomposition into spherical harmonic coefficients using several public catalogs of redshift-independent distances, the Cosmicflows-3 and Pantheon data sets, covering the redshift range $$0.01