Generating Intrinsic Dipole Anisotropy in the Large Scale Structures

Abstract

There have been recent reports of unexpectedly large velocity dipole in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey data. We investigate whether the excess in the NVSS dipole reported can be of cosmological origin. We assume a long wavelength inhomogeneous scalar perturbation of the form αsin (κz) and study its effects on the matter density contrasts. Assuming an ideal fluid model we calculate, in the linear regime, the contribution of the inhomogeneous mode to the density contrast. We calculate the expected dipole in the LSS for two cases, first assuming that the mode is still superhorizon everywhere, and second assuming the mode is subhorizon, but has crossed the horizon deep in matter domination and is subhorizon everywhere in the region of the survey (NVSS). In both cases we find that such an inhomogeneous scalar perturbation is sufficient to generate the reported values of dipole anisotropy in LSS. For the superhorizon modes we find values which are consistent with both CMB and NVSS results. We also predict signatures for the model which can be tested by future observations.

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