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Distribution of the halo spin orientation angle, θJz, with respect to the simulation z-axis, shown for three mass bins at redshift z = 0.5 in our S1 × ℝ2ΛCDM simulation. We only used halos with Npart > 100 in this analysis to reliably measure the angular momentum vectors. The histogram uses equal-area binning on the unit sphere, so that an isotropic spin distribution implies equal expected counts per bin. Each panel is annotated with the one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test on u = 1 2 ( 1 + cos ( θ Jz ) ) [ 0 , 1 ] Mathematical equation: $ u=\frac{1}{2}(1+\cos(\theta_{Jz}))\in[0,1] $ against the uniform null. The three mass bins show no departures from the isotropic expectation. We found similar distributions in all other output redshifts and mass bins with no clear signs of anisotropy.

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