Motion toward the Great Attractor from an ether-drift experiment

dc.creatorConsoli, M.
dc.creatorCostanzo, E.
dc.creatorPalmisano, V.
dc.date2006-01-19
dc.date2006-01-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:57:01Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:57:01Z
dc.descriptionSince the end of 80's, the region of sky of galactic coordinates (l\sim 309^o, b\sim 18^o), corresponding to a declination γ\sim -44^o and right ascension α\sim 202^o, usually denoted as the "Great Attractor", is known to control the overall galaxy flow in our local Universe. In this sense, this direction might represent a natural candidate to characterize a hypothetical Earth's "absolute motion". Our analysis of the extensive ether-drift observations recently reported by an experimental group in Berlin provides values of αand γthat coincide almost exactly with those of the Great Attractor and not with the values γ\sim -6^o and α\sim 168^o obtained from a dipole fit to the anisotropy of the CMB. This supports in a new fashion the existence of a discrepancy between the observed motion of the Local Group and the direction obtained from the CMB dipole.
dc.description12 pages, plain Latex
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601420
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601420
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/106816
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleMotion toward the Great Attractor from an ether-drift experiment
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