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A Search for Great Walls of Cosmic Baryons in the Northern Sky

  • Authors: Vikram Ravi, Kritti Sharma, Liam Connor

Vikram Ravi et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

North Celestial Pole–centered polar projections of extragalactic DM excess across the Northern Sky. R.A, increases clockwise; the gray curve marks the Galactic plane (b = 0°). Left: per-pixel mean DM excess (Nside = 4, NFRB ≥ 20 per pixel, 75 pixels). Middle: Gaussian-smoothed DM excess (Nside = 8, σ = 7﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{{\unicode{x000b0}}}﹩3). A prominent excess, which we term Wall 1, of ∼150 pc cm−3 is visible near α ≈ 12h, δ ≈ 55°. A secondary excess, termed Wall 2, is visible near α ≈ 2h, δ ≈ 45°. Right: significance of the smoothed DM excess in units of the standard error of the mean (s.e.m.). The peak exceeds 4σ for Wall 1. In all panels, the colorbar ranges are set by the minima and maxima of the data.

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