1996/09/04 by Charles H. Lineweaver, Lineweaver, Charles H.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609034
To be published in Moriond CMB Proceedings 7 pages postscript
arxiv created 1996/09/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
The largest anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the ≈ 3 mK dipole assumed to be due to our velocity with respect to the CMB. Over the past ten years the precision of our knowledge of the dipole has increased by a factor of ten. We discuss the most recent measurement of this dipole obtained from the four year COBE Differential Microwave Radiometers (DMR) as reported by Lineweaver \etal (1996). The inferred velocity of the Local Group is vLG= 627 ± 22 km/s in the direction ℓ = 276°± 3, b= 30°± 2. We compare this most recent measurement to a compilation of more than 30 years of dipole observations.