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Spatial Distribution of the Gamma-ray Bursts and the Cosmological Principle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2017

Attila Mészáros*
Affiliation:
Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Astronomical Institute, V Holešovičkách 2, Prague 8, Czech Republic, email: meszaros@cesnet.cz
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The Cosmological Principle claims that in the large scale average the visible parts of the universe are isotropic and homogeneous. In year 1998 the author, together with his two colleagues, discovered that the BATSE’s short gamma-ray bursts are not distributed isotropically on the sky. This first discovery was followed by other ones confirming both the existence of anisotropies in the angular distribution of bursts and the existence of huge Gpc structures in the spatial distribution. All this means that these anisotropies should reject the Cosmological Principle, because the large scale averaging hardly can be provided. This was claimed in year 2009. The aim of this contribution is to survey these publications since 1998 till today.

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