English

Origin of Galaxies

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-11-20 v1

Abstract

Milgromian Dynamics (MOND) has been particularly successful in predicting scaling relations for galactic systems, namely the baryonic Tully-Fisher for spirals, the Faber-Jackson for ellipticals and the Radial Acceleration Relation for late-type galaxies. Its essential tenet is the modification of the gravity law at low accelerations. Nevertheless, despite MOND's passed tests, the puzzle of the missing mass on galaxy clusters' scales still persists. One proposed scenario to complete this deficit and apply it further to cosmology is the so-called ν\nuHDM model. It is composed of a sterile neutrino and the MOND gravity. In this Ph.D. thesis, I have put forward this cosmological idea, conducting hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the ν\nuHDM structure formation. In the debut attempt, the ν\nuHDM model was proven capable of reproducing the Λ\LambdaCDM cosmology, imitating the same expansion history (Ωm\Omega_m \approx 0.3 and H0H_0 \approx 67.6 km/s/Mpc), reproducing the CMB phenomenology, while the cosmic web is nicely formed. In the next step, I have optimized the ν\nuHDM model using Bayesian statistics, re-branding it to opt-ν\nuHDM. I managed to optimally fit the angular power spectrum of the CMB calculated by \textit{Planck}, except its fourth peak, but the opt-ν\nuHDM cosmological parameters changed significantly with respect to its precursor, resulting in a much heavier cosmos, with Ωm\Omega_m \approx 0.5 and H0H_0 \approx 55.6 km/s/Mpc. Next, I explore the opt-ν\nuHDM expansion history, its structure formation and the resulting mass function. The appearance of the early-time structures, firstly in the ν\nuHDM model, as well as in the opt-ν\nuHDM model occurs quiet late, at z4z\approx4 and at z5.5z\approx 5.5, respectively. Although the resolution has improved from previous studies, the ν\nuHDM variants cannot explain easily the high-redshift galaxies, observed by JWST.

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@article{arxiv.2511.15325,
  title  = {Origin of Galaxies},
  author = {Nikolaos Samaras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.15325},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Successfully PhD defence in August 2025, Charles University, CZ

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