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The rotation curves of low surface brightness galaxies provide a unique data set with which to test alternative theories of gravitation over a large dynamic range in size, mass, surface density, and acceleration. Many clearly fail,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Stacy McGaugh , Erwin de Blok

MOND predicts a number of laws that galactic systems should obey irrespective of their complicated, haphazard, and mostly unknowable histories -- as Kepler's laws are obeyed by planetary systems. The main purpose of this work is to show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-24 Mordehai Milgrom

A comprehensive study of the co-evolution of globular cluster systems (GCS) in galaxies requires the ability to model both the large scale dynamics (0.01 - 10 kpc) regulating their orbital evolution, and the small scale dynamics (sub-pc -…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 A. Leveque , M. Giersz , M. Arca-Sedda , A. Askar

The stellar halo of the Milky Way is built up, at least in part, from debris from past mergers. Stars from such merger events define substructures in phase-space, for example in the form of streams, which are groups of stars moving on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 Orlin Koop , Amina Helmi

The proximity of the MOND acceleration constant with cosmological accelerations -- for example, a0 cH0/2pi -- points to its possibly decreasing with cosmic time. I begin to consider the secular changes induced in galactic systems by such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-19 Mordehai Milgrom

We show that treating gravitation as a thermodynamical theory leads to the modified Newton dynamics (MOND) equations if one takes into account the Hubble's expansion. Then the universal MOND acceleration a0 is exactly twice the product of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Peter V. Pikhitsa

To investigate the dynamical properties of globular clusters, the surface brightness and kinematic data were collected and fitted to a family of lowered isothermal models called LIMEPY models. For 18 studied globular clusters, the amounts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-13 Chia-Hsuan Cheng , Ing-Guey Jiang

The infall and merger scenario of massive clusters in the Milky Way's potential well, as one of the Milky Way formation mechanisms, is reexamined to understand how the stars of the merging clusters are redistributed during and after the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 Maria Gabriela Navarro , Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Manuel Arca-Sedda , Dante Minniti

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) was originally proposed to model galaxy rotation curves without dark matter. However, MOND presents difficulties in explaining the Radial Acceleration Relation (RAR) observed in galaxy clusters, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Robert Monjo

Despite the success of dark-matter models, unresolved issues require exploring alternatives such as modified gravity theories. In this context, we examine the compatibility of the Hyperconical Modified Gravity (HMG) with galaxy rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Robert Monjo

Using Jeans modelling, we calculate the velocity dispersion profile of the ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) Dragonfly 44 in MOND. For the nominal mass-to-light ratio from the literature and an isotropic profile, the agreement with the data is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-03 Michal Bílek , Oliver Müller , Benoit Famaey

There is an effect in the modified dynamics (MOND) that is conducive to formation of warps. Because of the nonlinearity of the theory the internal dynamics of a galaxy is affected by a perturber over and above possible tidal effects. For…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rafael Brada , Mordehai Milgrom

Very-low-surface-density galactic systems have very low mean accelerations. They thus provide quintessential tests of the Modified Dynamics (MOND), which predicts an increasing mass discrepancy with decreasing acceleration. We describe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordehai Milgrom

We present the results of a detailed analysis of the projected velocity dispersion of the globular cluster Palomar 14 performed using recent high-resolution spectroscopic data and extensive Monte Carlo simulations. The comparison between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Sollima , C. Nipoti , A. Mastrobuono Battisti , M. Montuori , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

We study weak gravitational lensing of galaxy clusters in terms of the MOND (MOdified Newtonian Dynamics) theory. We calculate shears and convergences of background galaxies for three clusters (A1689, CL0024+1654, CL1358+6245) and the mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ryuichi Takahashi , Takeshi Chiba

Galactic systems, and the Universe at large, exhibit large dynamical anomalies: The observed matter in them falls very short of providing enough gravity to account for their dynamics. The mainstream response to this conundrum is to invoke…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-25 Mordehai Milgrom

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MoND) is an empirically modification of Newtonian gravity at largest scales in order to explain rotation curves of galaxies, as an alternative to nonbaryonic dark matter. But MoND theories can hardly connect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-21 Nelson Falcon

Some dwarf galaxies are within the Mondian regime at all radii, i.e., the gravitational acceleration provided by the observed baryons is always below the threshold of $g_\dag\simeq 1.2\times 10^{-10}\,{\rm m\,s^{-2}}$. These dwarf galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 J. Sanchez Almeida

General relativity (GR) is the most successful theory of gravity, with great observational support on local scales. However, to keep GR valid over cosmic scales, some phenomena (such as flat galaxy rotation curves and the cosmic expansion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Robert Monjo , Indranil Banik

Measurements of the surface brightness distribution and of the velocity dispersion profile have been so far used to infer the inner dynamics of globular clusters. We show that those observations do not trace back the dark matter potentially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Roueff , Pierre Salati , Richard Taillet