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Some gas-rich "ultra-diffuse" galaxies (UDGs), which are extreme examples of low surface brightness (LSB) dwarf galaxies, have been reported to lack dark matter and to be offset from the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR). If confirmed,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-13 Federico Lelli

Two incorrect arguments against MOND in elliptical galaxies could be that the equivalent circular velocity curves tend to become flat at much larger accelerations than in spiral galaxies, and that the Newtonian dark matter halos are more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tom Richtler , Benoit Famaey , Gianfranco Gentile , Ylva Schuberth

I start with a brief introduction to MOND phenomenology and its possible roots in cosmology--a notion that may turn out to be the most far reaching aspect of MOND. Next I discuss the implications of MOND for the dark matter (DM) doctrine:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Mordehai Milgrom

We combine data from the Spitzer Survey for Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S$^4$G), a recently calibrated empirical stellar mass estimator from Eskew et al., and an extensive database of HI spectral line profiles to examine the baryonic…

The dark matter (DM) haloes around spiral galaxies appear to conspire with their baryonic content: empirically, significant amounts of DM are inferred only below a universal characteristic acceleration scale. Moreover, the discrepancy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Joachim Janz , Michele Cappellari , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Luca Ciotti , Adebusola Alabi , Duncan A. Forbes

We present the results of a baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR) study for a local sample of relatively isolated disk galaxies. We derive a BTFR with a slope near 3 measured over about 4 dex in baryon mass for our combined…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sebastián Gurovich , Kenneth Freeman , Helmut Jerjen , Lister Staveley-Smith , Ivânio Puerari

This chapter presents Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), the proposal that, below a certain acceleration scale $a_0$, dynamics departs from the Newtonian expectation. In that context, the determining factor for the emergence of apparent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-29 Benoit Famaey , Amel Durakovic

We compare the MOG and MOND predictions of the Tully-Fisher relationship to observations using gas-rich galaxies for which the baryonic mass can be estimated accurately. We find that both theories are in good agreement with the data. Future…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-07-19 J. W. Moffat , Viktor T. Toth

We present MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) fits to 15 rotation curves of LSB galaxies. Good fits are readily found, although for a few galaxies minor adjustments to the inclination are needed. Reasonable values for the stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. J. G. de Blok , S. S. McGaugh

The concordance model of cosmology, LCDM, provides a satisfactory description of the evolution of the universe and the growth of large scale structure. Despite considerable effort, this model does not at present provide a satisfactory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-27 Stacy S. McGaugh

The irrefutable successes of MOND are predicated upon the idea that a critical gravitational acceleration scale, $a_0$, exists. But, beyond its role in MOND, the question: 'Why should a critical gravitational acceleration scale exist at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-15 David Roscoe

We reconsider the recently proposed mimetic gravity, focusing in particular on whether the theory is able to reproduce the inferred flat rotation curves of galaxies. We extend the theory by adding a non-minimal coupling between matter and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-13 Sunny Vagnozzi

The Baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTF) can be substantially improved when considering that the galactic baryonic mass is likely to consist not only from the detected baryons, stars and gas, but also from a dark baryonic component…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Pfenniger , Y. Revaz

The ratio of baryonic-to-dark matter in present-day galaxies constrains galaxy formation theories and can be determined empirically via the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR), which compares a galaxy's baryonic mass (Mbary) to its…

Milgromian Dynamics (MOND) has been particularly successful in predicting scaling relations for galactic systems, namely the baryonic Tully-Fisher for spirals, the Faber-Jackson for ellipticals and the Radial Acceleration Relation for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nikolaos Samaras

McGaugh et al. (2016) have used their extensive SPARC sample to update the well-known mass-discrepancy-acceleration relation (MDAR), which is one of the major predicted "MOND laws". This is not a newly discovered relation. Rather, it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-10 Mordehai Milgrom

By means of interferometic 21-cm observations and a 3D kinematic modeling technique, we study the gas kinematics of six HI-rich ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs). We derive robust circular velocities and baryonic masses, that allow us to study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-17 Pavel E. Mancera Piña , Filippo Fraternali , Elizabeth A. K. Adams , Tom Oosterloo

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is one of the most popular alternative theories of dark matter to explain the missing mass problem in galaxies. Although it remains controversial regarding MOND as a fundamental theory, MOND phenomenology…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-25 Man Ho Chan , Ka Chung Law

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the APOSTLE project along with high-quality rotation curve observations to examine the fraction of baryons in {\Lambda}CDM haloes that collect into galaxies. This 'galaxy formation…

The phenomenology of MOND (flat rotation curves of galaxies, baryonic Tully-Fisher relation, etc.) is a basic set of phenomena relevant to galaxy dynamics and dark matter distribution at galaxy scales. Still unexplained today, it enjoys a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Luc Blanchet , Laura Bernard