English

Modified Dark Matter in Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2018-01-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Modified Dark Matter (MDM) is a phenomenological model of dark matter, inspired by gravitational thermodynamics, that naturally accounts for the universal acceleration constant observed in galactic rotation curve data; a critical acceleration related to the cosmological constant, Λ\Lambda, appears as a phenomenological manifestation of MDM. We show that the resulting mass profiles, which are sensitve to Λ\Lambda, are consistent with observations at the galactic and galaxy cluster scales. Our results suggest that dark matter mass profiles contain information about the cosmological constant in a non-trivial way.

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@article{arxiv.1801.00160,
  title  = {Modified Dark Matter in Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters},
  author = {Douglas Edmonds and Duncan Farrah and Djordje Minic and Y. Jack Ng and Tatsu Takeuchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00160},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

To be published in the Proceedings of the Bahamas Advanced Study Institute and Conferences (BASIC)

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