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The Statistical Significance of the "Dark Flow"

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2013-02-15 v2

Abstract

We revisit the statistical significance of the "dark flow" presented in Kashlinsky et al. (2009). We do not find a statistically significant detection of a bulk flow. Instead we find that CMB correlations between the 8 WMAP channels used in this analysis decrease the inferred significance of the detection to 0.7\sigma.

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@article{arxiv.0910.4233,
  title  = {The Statistical Significance of the "Dark Flow"},
  author = {Ryan Keisler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4233},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

matches version in ApJL, Volume 707, Issue 1, pp. L42-L44 (2009)