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Universal MOND relation between the baryonic and `dynamical' central surface densities of disc galaxies

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-09-28 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

I derive a new MOND relation for pure-disc galaxies: The `dynamical' central surface density, ΣD0\Sigma^0_D, deduced from the measured velocities, is a universal function of only the true, `baryonic' central surface density, ΣB0\Sigma^0_B: ΣD0=ΣMS(ΣB0/ΣM)\Sigma^0_D=\Sigma_M \mathcal{S}(\Sigma^0_B/\Sigma_M), where ΣMa0/2πG\Sigma_M\equiv a_0/2\pi G is the MOND surface density constant. This surprising result is shown to hold in both existing, nonrelativistic MOND theories. S(y)\mathcal{S}(y) is derived: S(y)=0yν(y)dy\mathcal{S}(y)=\int_0^y\nu(y')dy', with ν(y)\nu(y) the interpolating function of the theory. The relation aymptotes to ΣD0=ΣB0\Sigma^0_D=\Sigma^0_B for ΣB0ΣM\Sigma^0_B\gg\Sigma_M, and to ΣD0=(4ΣMΣB0)1/2\Sigma^0_D=(4\Sigma_M\Sigma^0_B)^{1/2} for ΣB0ΣM\Sigma^0_B\ll\Sigma_M. This study was prompted by the recent finding of a correlation between related attributes of disc galaxies by Lelli et al. (2016). The MOND central-surface-densities relation agrees very well with these results.

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@article{arxiv.1607.05103,
  title  = {Universal MOND relation between the baryonic and `dynamical' central surface densities of disc galaxies},
  author = {Mordehai Milgrom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.05103},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Physical Review Letters, in press. Added a discussion of generalizations. 5 pages, 1 figure