How Galaxies Don't Form
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
I review current theories of disk galaxy formation. All fail in the light of recent data for low surface brightness galaxies. The difficulty stems from the presence of a unique acceleration scale in the data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9812327,
title = {How Galaxies Don't Form},
author = {Stacy McGaugh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9812327},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Invited review for Galaxy Dynamics conference, eds. D. Merritt & J. Sellwood