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MOND-- modified Newtonian dynamics-- may be viewed as an algorithm for calculating the distribution of force in an astronomical object from the observed distribution of baryonic matter. The fact that it works for galaxies is quite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-17 R. H. Sanders

MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is an interesting alternative to dark matter in extragalactic systems. We here examine the possibility that mild or even strong MOND behavior may become evident well inside the solar system, in particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacob Bekenstein , Joao Magueijo

General Relativity is able to describe the dynamics of galaxies and larger cosmic structures only if most of the matter in the Universe is dark, namely it does not emit any electromagnetic radiation. Intriguingly, on the scale of galaxies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-28 Antonaldo Diaferio , Garry W. Angus

The competition between CDM and MOND to account for the `missing mass' phenomena is asymmetric. MOND has clearly demonstrated that a characteristic acceleration $a_0$ underlies the data and understanding what gives rise to $a_0$ is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Binney

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

We present direct observational constraints on the orbital distribution of the stars in the giant elliptical NGC 2320. Long-slit spectra along multiple position angles are used to derive the stellar line-of-sight velocity distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nicolas Cretton , Hans-Walter Rix , Tim de Zeeuw

The widely accepted dark matter hypothesis offers a seductive solution to missing mass problems (galaxies, clusters of galaxies, gravitational collapse in structure formation,...). However the physical nature of the Dark Matter itself is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Etienne Pointecouteau

Several recent studies have shown that velocity differences of very wide binary stars, measured to high precision with GAIA, can potentially provide an interesting test for modified-gravity theories which attempt to emulate dark matter.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-06 Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland

I show that Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is equivalent to assuming an isothermal dark matter density profile, with its density related to the enclosed total baryonic mass. This density profile can be deduced by physical laws if a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Man Ho Chan

MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is an alternative to the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm which proposes an alteration of Newton's laws of motion at low accelerations, characterized by a universal acceleration scale a_0. It…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Alexander C. Mayer , Adelheid F. Teklu , Klaus Dolag , Rhea-Silvia Remus

We apply Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and Verlinde's emergent gravity separately to calculate the radial accelerations in 23 dwarf spheroidals. Then, we compare them with the observed radial accelerations. In our earlier work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-02 Youngsub Yoon , Sanghyeon Han , Ho Seong Hwang

Wide-binary stars, separated by thousands of AU, reside in low-acceleration regimes where Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) predicts deviation from Newtonian gravity. However, Gaia radial velocities (RVs) lack the precision to resolve the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Serat Mahmud Saad , Yuan-Sen Ting

Observations indicate that the baryonic matter of galaxies is surrounded by vast dark matter halos, which nature remains unknown. This document details the analysis of the results published in MNRAS 438, 2, 1535 (2014) reporting an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-15 A. Deur

The MOND paradigm posits a departure from standard Newtonian dynamics, and from General Relativity, in the limit of small accelerations. The resulting modified dynamics aim to account for the mass discrepancies in the universe without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-09 Mordehai Milgrom

The recently developed code for N-body/hydrodynamics simulations in Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), known as RAyMOND, is used to investigate the consequences of MOND on structure formation in a cosmological context, with a particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 G. N. Candlish

The modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) paradigm is discussed in the context of asymptotic safe gravity. We estimate quantum correction to the logarithmic potential which is well known to account for the constancy of the circular velocity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-23 Bijan Bagchi , Sauvik Sen

A sample of 22 spiral galaxy rotation curves, measured in the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen, is considered in the context of Milgrom's modified dynamics (MOND). Combined with the previous highly selected sample of Begeman et al. (1990),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 R. H. Sanders

We propose an alternative to particle dark matter that borrows ingredients of MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) while adding new key components. The first new feature is a dark matter fluid, in the form of a scalar field with small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Justin Khoury

The iconic, deep-MOND-limit (DML) relation between acceleration and mass, $a\sim (M\mathcal{A}_0)^{1/2}/r$, implies that, in MOND, accelerations cannot be linear in the mass distribution ($\mathcal{A}_0\equiv Ga_0$ is the DML constant, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Mordehai Milgrom

We present the analysis of a kinematic data set of stars in the globular cluster NGC 2419, taken with Keck/DEIMOS. Combined with a reanalysis of deep HST and Subaru imaging data, which provide an accurate luminosity profile of the cluster,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 R. Ibata , A. Sollima , C. Nipoti , M. Bellazzini , S. C. Chapman , E. Dalessandro