Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-11-07
Astrophys.J. 584 (2003) 580-584
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 1 figure, to be published in ApJ 584, No.2 (2003)
Scientific paper
10.1086/345829
Recent observations of dipole anisotropies show that the velocity of the Local Group ($\Vec v_{\rm G}$) induced by the clustering of IRAS galax ies has an amplitude and direction similar to those of the velocity of Cosmic Microwave Background dipole anisotropy ($\Vec v_{\rm CMB}$), but the difference $| \Vec v_{\rm G} - \Vec v_{\rm CMB} |$ is still $\sim 170$ km/s, which is about 28% of $|\Vec v_{\rm CMB} |$. Here we consider the possibility that the origin of this difference comes from a hypothetical large-scale local void, with which we can account for the accelerating behavior of type Ia supernovae due to the spatial inhomogeneity of the Hubble constant without dark energies and derive the constraint to the model parameters of the local void. It is found as a result that the distance between the Local Group and the center of the void must be $(10 -- 20) h^{-1}$ Mpc, whose accurate value depends on the background model parameters.
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