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The recently formulated model of black holes coupled to the radial flows of dark matter (RDM-stars) is considered and the shape of the galactic rotation curves predicted by the model is evaluated. Under the assumption that the density of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Igor Nikitin

We resume our analysis of Newtonian Fractional-Dimension Gravity (NFDG), an alternative gravitational model that does not require the dark matter (DM) paradigm. We add three more galaxies (NGC 6946, NGC 3198, NGC 2841) to the catalog of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Gabriele U. Varieschi

The rotation curves of regularly rotating disc galaxies are a unique probe of the gravitational potential and dark matter distribution. Until recently, matter decomposition of rotation curves at $z>0.5$ was challenging, not only due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Fernanda Roman-Oliveira , Francesca Rizzo , Filippo Fraternali

A better understanding of the formation of mass structures in the universe can be obtained by determining the amount and distribution of dark and luminous matter in spiral galaxies. To investigate such matters a sample of 12 galaxies, most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Roelof Bottema , Jose Luis G. Pestana

Galactic rotation curves are crucial for understanding the distribution of mass in galaxies. Despite advances in precision observations, there are discrepancies between the inferred mass from luminosity and the observed rotational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-05 Gabriela Garcia-Arroyo , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , J. Alberto Vázquez

In the last 20 years, rotation curves derived from H I kinematics obtained on radio synthesis instruments were used to probe the dark matter distribution in spiral and dwarf irregular galaxies. It is shown, with the aid of the Sd galaxy NGC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sebastien Blais-Ouellette , Claude Carignan , Philippe Amram

\textbf{GalRotpy} is an educational \verb+Python3+-based visual tool, which is useful to undestand how is the contribution of each mass component to the gravitational potential of disc-like galaxies by means of their rotation curve.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-03 Andrés Granados , Daniel Torres , Leonardo Castañeda , Lady-J. Henao-O. , Santiago Vanegas

We find a new family of galactic metrics corresponding to flat rotation curves at the outer radii. These are vacuum solutions to a gravity theory where the Newton's coupling varies mildly in space. The effective `mass', whose origin is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-08 Rounak Chakraborty , Sandipan Sengupta

In the past several years high resolution kinematic data sets from Milky Way satellite galaxies have confirmed earlier indications that these systems are dark matter dominated objects. Further understanding of what these galaxies reveal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Louis E. Strigari

Modified Gravity (MOG) has been used successfully to explain the rotation curves of galaxies, the motion of galaxy clusters, the Bullet Cluster, and cosmological observations without the use of dark matter or Einstein's cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 J. W. Moffat

This paper is devoted to solve the galactic rotation problem for ESO138-G014 galaxy based on two theories: dark matter and Modified Newtonian Dynamics. Here we did the rotation curve analysis with two possible choices for the dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-02 Norsiah Hashim , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Zamri Zainal Abidin , Paolo Salucci

The Milky Way disc presents a warp, a flare, lopsidedness and other deviations from a purely axisymmetrical double exponential density component, both for the stellar and the gas component. Moreover, recent large-scale extended kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-07 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

Logarithmic superfluid theory of physical vacuum suggests that gravity has a multiple-scale structure; where one can recognize sub-Newtonian, Newtonian, logarithmic, linear and quadratic (de Sitter) terms in the induced spacetime metric and…

General Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

The determination of the velocities, accelerations and the gravitational field intensity at a given location in a galaxy could potentially be achieved in an unexpected manner with the environment of the observer, for instance, the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 G. Pascoli

We study disc galaxies in the framework of General Relativity to focus on the possibility that, even in the low energy limit, there are relevant corrections with respect to the purely Newtonian approach. Our analysis encompasses the model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Davide Astesiano , Matteo Luca Ruggiero

We develop a model for spiral galaxies based on a nonlinear realization of the Newtonian dynamics starting from the momentum and mass conservations in the phase space. The radial solution exhibits a rotation curve in qualitative accordance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 C. A. M. de Melo , S. T. Resende

We build a spherical halo model for galaxies using a general scalar-tensor theory of gravity in its Newtonian limit. The scalar field is described by a time-independent Klein-Gordon equation with a source that is coupled to the standard…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-03-24 Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , Mario A. Rodriguez-Meza , Dario Nunez

We investigate the possibility of discriminating between Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and Newtonian gravity with dark matter, by studying the vertical dynamics of disk galaxies. We consider models with the same circular velocity in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Carlo Nipoti , Pasquale Londrillo , HongSheng Zhao , Luca Ciotti

We consider the gravitational potential and the gravitational rotation field generated by an spherical mass distribution with exponential density, when the force between any two mass elements is not the usual Newtonian one, but some general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Rodrigo-Blanco

We present combined Halpha+HI rotation curves for a sample of spiral galaxies. Most of the velocity profiles (spectra at single points) in these galaxies are asymmetric, preventing the use of standard methods like the first moment analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gentile , D. Vergani , P. Salucci , P. Kalberla , U. Klein