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The KABKE dark flow.


The Kabke Dark Flow.

A copy of our ApJ Lett can be downloaded
here


The main result by KABKE (2008)
is displayed in the figure. The solid line is the Lambda-CDM prediction, the red
shade is the 1sigma cosmic variance uncertainty. Diammonds represent our
measurements with 1sigma errors. The horizontal bar joints the mean and median
redshifts of our sample.

Our result show that the Lambda-CDM model can not account for the large scale
velocity flows measured by us. If the motion is local must be generated by
a large mass concentration or a void of about 1Gyr. If the motion extends all
the way across the horizon, then it will be an indication that superhorizon
sized perturbations dominate the dynamics of the local Universe.

Our measurement was independently confirmed by Watkins, Feldman and Hudson
[arXiv: 0809.4041] albeit at a smaller scale and with smaller amplitude,
and by Lavaux, Tully, Mohayee and Colombi [arXiv: 0810.3658].

Several interpretations have been proposed:

  • An intrisic gradient in the metric, proposed by Grishuk and Zeldovich.
    In this context, was suggested by M Turner in 1991.
  • Is the ‘smoking gun’ of the string landscape of quantum cosmology.
    Proposed by L. Mersini-Houghton and Holman [arXiv: 0810.5388]
  • It is the prove that the Dark Matter and Dark Energy rest frames
    are not the same. Suggested by J. Beltran and A. Maroto [arXiv: 0811.3606]
  • The void solution would correspond to the Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi solution,
    See J. Garcia-Bellido and Haugboelle [arXiv: 0810.4939]


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