Upper panel: p-values for variance asymmetry measured as the number of simulations with local-variance dipole amplitudes larger than those inferred from the data, as a function of disc radius for the four component-separated maps, Commander (red), NILC (orange), SEVEM (green), and SMICA (blue), and for unfiltered and high-pass-filtered cases. For the filtered case, the Commander curve is covered by the SMICA curve for small (r_disk ≤ 8) disks, and by the SEVEM curve for large disks (r_disk> 8). Lower panel: local-variance dipole directions for the SMICA map. The colours, as indicated by the colourbar, correspond to different values of the high-pass filter central multipole ℓ₀. The size of a marker disc corresponds, from small to large, to the size of the disc used in the analysis, namely 4°, 12°, 20°, and 70°. The dipole directions from the Commander, NILC, and SEVEM component-separation methods are consistent with the case shown here. The low-ℓ and WMAP-9 directions are identical to those in Fig. 35.