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Dipole anisotropy

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Dipole anisotropy is the progressive difference in the frequency of radiation from opposite directions due to the motion of the observer relative to the source. As a result of that motion, one end of the 360-degree spectrum is redshifted, whereas the other end is blueshifted. That effect is notable in measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation, due to the motion of earth. Look up Anisotropy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Anisotropy (the opposite of isotropy) is the property of being directionally dependent. ... Sine waves of various frequencies; the lower waves have higher frequencies than those above. ... Radiation generally means the transmission of waves, objects or information from a source into a surrounding medium or destination. ... Sound waves emanating from an ambulance moving to the right. ... Sound waves emanating from an ambulance moving to the right. ... Cosmic microwave background radiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...


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Cosmic microwave background radiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3774 words)
Increasingly stringent limits on the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background were set by ground based experiments, but the anisotropy was first detected by the Differential Microwave Radiometer instrument on the COBE satellite.
The first peak in the anisotropy was tentatively detected by the Toco experiment and the result was confirmed by the BOOMERanG and MAXIMA experiments.
While the low quadrupole does appear to be robust (The measured value has a likelihood of roughly 2–4% in the Lambda-CDM model.), carefully accounting for the procedure used to remove the foregrounds from the full sky map reduces the significance of the alignment, and may suggest that it is due to foreground contamination.
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