Relativistic corrections to the rotation curves of disk galaxies
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2021-03-17 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We present a method to investigate relativistic effects arising from large masses. The method is non-perturbative and employs a mean-field approximation and gravitational lensing. Using this method and a basic model of disk galaxy, we find that relativistic corrections to the rotation curves of disk galaxies are significant at large galactic radii. The model predicts a strong correlation between the inferred galactic dark mass and the galactic disk thickness, which we verified using two separate sets of observational data.
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@article{arxiv.2004.05905,
title = {Relativistic corrections to the rotation curves of disk galaxies},
author = {Alexandre Deur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.05905},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
11 pages, 9 figures. Final version accepted in Eur. Phys. Jour. C