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The Cosmological Dipole in Tilted Anisotropic Universes

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-12-04 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

There is tentative evidence for a mismatch between the rest frames of matter and the cosmic microwave background, the "quasar dipole anomaly". We consider such a dipole in tilted anisotropic models, for a range of scenarios and sources: spatial curvature, cosmic heat flux, large scale electromagnetic fields and a Khronon field. Crucially, we determine the ancillary effects on other cosmological observables in each of these models and we show that, apart from the case of the Khronon field, it is unlikely that one can obtain a dipole with the amplitude that is being observed unless one considers additional exotica.

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@article{arxiv.2512.03867,
  title  = {The Cosmological Dipole in Tilted Anisotropic Universes},
  author = {Alicia Martín and Constantinos Skordis and Deaglan J. Bartlett and Harry Desmond and Pedro G. Ferreira and Tariq Yasin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.03867},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

11 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. D