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We find a connection between relativistic Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) theories and (scalar) mimetic gravity. We first demonstrate that any relativistic MOND model featuring a unit-timelike vector field, such as TeVeS or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-17 Guillem Domènech , Alexander Ganz

In the past few decades, various versions of modified gravity theories were proposed to mimic the effect of dark matter. Compared with the conventional Newtonian or relativistic dynamics, these theories contain some extra apparent force…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

MOG as a modified gravity theory is designed to be replaced with dark matter. In this theory, in addition to the metric tensor, a massive vector is a gravity field where each particle has a charge proportional to the inertial mass and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Sohrab Rahvar

We present a cosmological realization of Scalar--Tensor--Vector Gravity (STVG--MOG) in which the pre-recombination scalar perturbation dynamics become degenerate with those of $\Lambda$CDM without invoking particle dark matter. In the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 John W. Moffat

We obtain the action of Moffat's Modified Gravity, (MOG), a scalar-tensor-vector theory of gravitation, by generalizing the Horava-Witten mechanism to fourteen dimensions. We show that the resulting theory is anomaly-free. We propose an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-09 Alireza Sepehri , Tooraj Ghaffary , Yaghoob Naimi

A simple model for the dynamics of the Magellanic Stream (MS), in the framework of modified gravity models is investigated. We assume that the galaxy is made up of baryonic matter out of context of dark matter scenario. The model we used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Hosein Haghi , Sohrab Rahvar

After reviewing the modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) proposal, we advocate that the associated phenomenology may actually not result from a modification of Newtonian gravity, but from a mechanism of "gravitational polarization" of some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-09 Luc Blanchet , Alexandre Le Tiec

NGC1277 is a compact but massive lenticular galaxy that shows no signs of the presence of dark matter. We find that this galaxy's behavior is consistent not only with Newtonian dynamics, but also with the predictions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-28 John W. Moffat , Viktor T. Toth

The field equations for Scalar-Tensor-Vector-Gravity (STVG) or modified gravity (MOG) have a static, spherically symmetric black hole solution determined by the mass $M$ with two horizons. The strength of the gravitational constant is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-05 J. W. Moffat

The modified gravity (MOG) theory is applied to the gravitational wave binary merger GW190814 to demonstrate that the modified Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation for a neutron star can produce a mass $M=2.6 -2.7 M_\odot$, allowing for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-17 J. W. Moffat

We study the global stability of a self-gravitating disk in the context of Modified Gravity (MOG) using N-body simulations. This theory is a relativistic scalar-tensor-vector theory of gravity and presented to address the dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-17 Neda Ghafourian , Mahmood Roshan

Recent analyses of wide-area radio-galaxy surveys have reported a statistically significant excess in the cosmic number-count dipole, with an amplitude exceeding the purely kinematic expectation of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 John. W. Moffat

Modified Gravity (MOG) and Non-Local Gravity (NLG) are two alternative theories to General Relativity. They are able to explain the rotation curves of spiral galaxies and clusters of galaxies without including dark matter (Moffat & Rahvar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-09 M. H. Zhoolideh Haghighi , S. Rahvar

We study the global gravitational stability of a gaseous self-gravitating Maclaurin disk in the absence of a halo. Further, we replace Newtonian gravity with the specific Modified gravity theory known as MOG in the relevant literature. MOG…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Mahmood Roshan , Shahram Abbassi , Habib G. Khosroshahi

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-04 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

A modified Mimetic gravity (MMG) is proposed as a generalization of general relativity. The model contain a physical metric which is function of an auxiliary (unphysical) metric and a Lyra's metric. We construct different kinds of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-07 Davood Momeni , Aziza Altaibayeva , Ratbay Myrzakulov

A non-singular cosmology is derived in modified gravity (MOG) with a varying gravitational coupling strength $G(t)=G_N\xi(t)$. Assuming that the curvature $k$, the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and $\rho$ vanish at $t=0$, we obtain a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-10-24 J. W. Moffat

A consequence of adopting a modified gravitational theory (MOG) for the aLIGO GW190521 gravitational wave detection involving binary black hole sources is to fit the aLIGO strain and chirp data with lower mass, compact coalescing binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-10 J. W. Moffat

In this manuscript, we provide a comprehensive study of gravitational lensing by dark compact objects predicted by a Modified Gravity (MOG) based on the Scalar-Vector-Tensor action, and the aim is to analyze new insights into the nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Nagina Rehman , Zoe C. S. Chan , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

Over the last few decades, astronomers and cosmologists have accumulated vast amounts of data clearly demonstrating that our current theories of fundamental particles and of gravity are inadequate to explain the observed discrepancy between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Constantinos Skordis