Peculiar motions, accelerated expansion and the cosmological axis

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2011-07-20

arxiv.org/abs/1107.4045v3

Phys.Rev.D84:063503,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.84.063503

Peculiar velocities change the expansion rate of any observer moving relative to the smooth Hubble flow. As a result, observers in a galaxy like our Milky Way can experience accelerated expansion within a globally decelerating universe, even when the drift velocities are small. The effect is local, but the affected scales can be large enough to give the false impression that the whole cosmos has recently entered an accelerating phase. Generally, peculiar velocities are also associated with dipole-like anisotropies, triggered by the fact that they introduce a preferred spatial direction. This implies that observers experiencing locally accelerated expansion, as a result of their own drift motion, may also find that the acceleration is maximised in one direction and minimised in the opposite. We argue that, typically, such a dipole anisotropy should be relatively small and the axis should probably lie fairly close to the one seen in the spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background.

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