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Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is an empirical theory originally proposed to explain the rotation curves of spiral galaxies by modifying the gravitational acceleration, rather than by invoking dark matter. Here,we set constraints on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 Fabio Iocco , Miguel Pato , Gianfranco Bertone

We test the modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) theory with the velocity-dispersion profiles of Galactic globular clusters populating the outermost region of the Milky Way halo, where the Galactic acceleration is lower than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Sollima , C. Nipoti

We study the stability of a family of spherical equilibrium models of self-gravitating systems, the so-called $\gamma-$models with Osipkov-Merritt velocity anisotropy, by means of $N-$body simulations. In particular, we analyze the effect…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Lapo Casetti

We continue to investigate the dynamics of collisionless systems of particles interacting via additive $r^{-\alpha}$ interparticle forces. Here we focus on the dependence of the radial-orbit instability on the force exponent $\alpha$. By…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-13 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Luca Ciotti , Carlo Nipoti

This paper presents a study on the distinguishability of dark matter and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) at galactic scales based on the stability criterion proposed by Efstathiou, Lake, and Negroponte (ELN criterion). First, we test the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Tahere Kashfi , Mahmood Roshan , Virginia Cuomo , Benoit Famaey , Asiyeh Habibi , Srikanth T. Nagesh

Milgrom's modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) has done a great job on accounting for the rotation curves of a variety of galaxies by assuming that Newtonian dynamics breaks down for extremely low acceleration typically found in the galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-01 Ling-Jun Wang

We revisit the application of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) to galaxy clusters. We confront the high quality X-ray data for eight clusters of galaxies observed by the \xmm satellite with the predictions of MOND. We obtain a ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Etienne Pointecouteau , Joseph Silk

We study the stability of rotating collisionless self-gravitating spherical systems by using high resolution N-body experiments on a Connection Machine CM-5. We added rotation to Ossipkov-Merritt (hereafter OM) anisotropic spherical systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. -M. Alimi , J. Perez , A. Serna

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a possible way to explain the flat galaxy rotation curves without invoking the existence of dark matter. It is however quite difficult to predict such a phenomenology in a consistent field theory, free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Jean-Philippe Bruneton , Gilles Esposito-Farese

Stationary stellar systems with radially elongated orbits are subject to radial orbit instability -- an important phenomenon that structures galaxies. Antonov (1973) presented a formal proof of the instability for spherical systems in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 E. V. Polyachenko , I. G. Shukhman

Context. We have investigated the structure and kinematics of triaxial final models formed due to radial-orbit instability from a set of equilibrium anisotropic spherical systems of the Osipkov-Merritt type. Aims. We show that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-18 Piffl T. , Sotnikova N. Ya

We have performed a series of high resolution N-body experiments on a Connection Machine CM-5 in order to study the stability of collisionless self-gravitating spherical systems. We interpret our results in the framework of symplectic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Perez , J-M Alimi , J-J Aly , H. Scholl

We study the bar instability in collisionless, rotating, anisotropic, stellar systems, using N-body simulations and also the matrix technique for calculation of modes with the perturbed collisionless Boltzmann equation. These methods are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Philip G. Breen , Simon Rozier , Douglas C. Heggie , Anna Lisa Varri

Modified gravity theories such as Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity (STVG) have been proposed as alternatives to dark matter, but decisive tests have been hindered by degeneracies between baryonic structure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Zheng-long Wang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Lan Zhang , Yin Wu , Haining Li , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Hongsheng Zhao , Yi-Zhong Fan

No more salient issue exists in contemporary astrophysics and cosmology than that of the elusive "dark matter". For many years already Milgrom's paradigm of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) has provided an alternative way to interpret…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob D. Bekenstein

X-ray emitting clusters of galaxies are considered in the context of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). I show that self-gravitating isothermal gas spheres are not good representations of rich clusters with respect to the radial gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. H. Sanders

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), which postulates a breakdown of Newton's laws of gravity/dynamics below some critical acceleration threshold, can explain many otherwise puzzling observational phenomena on galactic scales. MOND competes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-15 David Vokrouhlický , David Nesvorný , Scott Tremaine

We present a modified inertia formulation of Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) without retaining Galilean invariance. Assuming that the existence of a universal upper bound, predicted by MOND, to the acceleration produced by a dark halo is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-09 Mohammed Alzain

Dark matter is the generally accepted paradigm in astrophysics and cosmology as a solution to the higher rate of rotation in galaxies, among many other reasons. But since there are still some problems encountered by the standard dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Hanna A. Sabat , Raed Z. Bani-Abdoh , Marwan S. Mousa

We investigate the core-cusp problem of the $\Lambda$ cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) scenario in the context of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) paradigm exploiting the concept of equivalent Newtonian system (ENS). By means of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-18 Federico Re , Pierfrancesco Di Cintio