Testing Yukawa-like potentials from f(R)-gravity in elliptical galaxies
Abstract
We present the first analysis of extended stellar kinematics of elliptical galaxies where a Yukawa--like correction to the Newtonian gravitational potential derived from f(R)-gravity is considered as an alternative to dark matter. In this framework, we model long-slit data and planetary nebulae data out to 7 Re of three galaxies with either decreasing or flat dispersion profiles. We use the corrected Newtonian potential in a dispersion-kurtosis Jeans analysis to account for the mass-anisotropy degeneracy. We find that these modified potentials are able to fit nicely all three elliptical galaxies and the anisotropy distribution is consistent with that estimated if a dark halo is considered. The parameter which measures the "strength" of the Yukawa-like correction is, on average, smaller than the one found previously in spiral galaxies and correlates both with the scale length of the Yukawa-like term and the orbital anisotropy.
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@article{arxiv.1201.3363,
title = {Testing Yukawa-like potentials from f(R)-gravity in elliptical galaxies},
author = {N. R. Napolitano and S. Capozziello and A. J. Romanowsky and M. Capaccioli and C. Tortora},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3363},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures. ApJ, accepted