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arxiv: 2606.04578 · v1 · pith:MYYAV5COnew · submitted 2026-06-03 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO

Cosmography of the Sloan Basin of Attraction and Neighborhood

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The Sloan Great Wall is a dominant structure that is relatively nearby. As well as evident in redshift survey maps, its presence is manifested in distortions to cosmic expansion. Here, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo forward reconstruction in a {\Lambda}CDM framework gives probabilistic density and velocity fields constrained by the Cosmicflows-4 compendium of galaxy distances and radial velocities. Streamlines of the reconstructed velocity field started from arbitrary points in space can be followed to sinks, i.e. the minima of the gravitational potential, due to the distribution of mass. A basin of attraction encompasses the volume of all streamlines ending at the same sink. The solution can be assigned probabilities, with uncertainties associated with the imperfect data and the random nature of the {\Lambda}CDM model. The Sloan basin of attraction is by far the largest basin in the study region, extending across a diameter of ~0.13c. It can be described by velocity streamlines that converge on the Sloan Great Wall, by the reconstructed density field, and by the network of filaments of the V-web, formulated by shear in the velocity field. The discussion of these elements is augmented by a video and interactive models. It is of interest to see the relationship of the Ho`oleilana baryon acoustic oscillation feature with the Sloan basin of attraction.

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