CosmoCoffee

How do we reconcile this paper with Chris Vale's paper astro-ph/0509039, "Local Pancake Defeats Axis of Evil" ?

Garth

I think it was generally decided that Vale gave the Great Attractor an unreasonable velocity (i.e. one similar to ours), and so his conclusions were unrealistic. The GA does not have the same rest frame as us and thus does not see the same dipole.

It looks like these guys properly take into account the different frames involved, and use realistic estimates of the velocities of various mass concentrations (GA, Shapley).

The velocity of the GA turns out to be a red herring, as I say in version 2 which will be on astro-ph on Monday; see my post Pancake forum for a brief discussion of why Asantha and I get very different answers.[/quote]