RT Journal Article T1 Large-scale cosmic flows and moving dark energy A1 López Maroto, Antonio A1 Beltrán Jiménez, José AB Large-scale matter bulk flows with respect to the cosmic microwave background have very recently been detected on scales less than or similar to 100h(-1) Mpc and less than or similar to 300h(-1) Mpc by using two different techniques showing an excellent agreement in the motion direction. However, the unexpectedly large measured amplitudes are difficult to understand within the context of standard Lambda CDM cosmology. In this work we show that the existence of such a flow could be signaling the presence of moving dark energy at the time when photons decoupled from matter. We also comment on the relation between the direction of the CMB dipole and the preferred axis observed in the quadrupole in this scenario. PB IOP Publishing Ltd SN 1475-7516 YR 2009 FD 2009-03 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44342 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44342 LA eng NO © 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA. We would like to thank Fernando Atrio Barandela for useful discussions and suggestions. This work has been supported by DGICYT (Spain) project numbers FPA 2004-02602 and FPA 2005 02327, UCM-Santander PR34/07-15875, CAM/UCM910309 andMEC grant BES-2006-12059. NO DGICYT (Spain) NO UCM-Santander NO CAM/UCM NO MEC DS Docta Complutense RD 12 may 2025