MOND fiducial specific angular momentum of disc galaxies
Abstract
It is pointed out that MOND defines a fiducial specific angular momentum (SAM) for a galaxy of total (baryonic) mass : . It plays important roles in disc-galaxy dynamics and evolution: It underlies scaling relations in virialized galaxies that involve their angular-momentum. I show that the disc SAM should be , with the mean radius of the disc, some mean surface density of the galaxy, is the MOND radius of the galaxy, and is the (universal) MOND surface density. So, e.g., for a fixed , , while for a fixed , . Furthermore, is a reference predictor of the type of galaxy a protogalaxy will settle into, if it evolves in isolation: A protogalaxy of mass , and SAM should settle into a low-surface-density disc -- with mean acceleration . While a protogalaxy with should end up with a disc of mass , having a SAM , which is tantamount to (i.e., at the `Freeman limit'); it should also develop a low-SAM bulge, taking up the rest of the mass .
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@article{arxiv.2107.03691,
title = {MOND fiducial specific angular momentum of disc galaxies},
author = {Mordehai Milgrom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.03691},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figure. Added a detailed discussion of the recent analysis of j-M correlations in Ref. 25, which lends itself to a much clearer comparison with the predictions of MOND. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D