"The standard Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology is based on the cosmological principle, which posits that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic on large scales. This assumption is supported by the smoothness of the CMB, which has temperature fluctuations of only ∼ 1 part in 100,000 on small angular scales. These higher multipoles of the CMB angular power spectrum are attributed to Gaussian density fluctuations created in the early universe with a nearly scale-invariant spectrum, which have grown through gravitational instability to create the large-scale structure in the present universe. The dipole anisotropy of the CMB is however much larger, being ∼ 1 part in 1000 as observed in the heliocentric rest frame. This is interpreted as due to our motion with respect to the rest frame in which the CMB is isotropic, and is thus called the kinematic dipole."
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