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Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is an alternative theory of gravity that aims to explain large-scale dynamics without recourse to any form of dark matter. However the theory is incomplete, lacking a relativistic counterpart, and so makes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Mortlock , Edwin L. Turner

A modified gravitational theory explains early universe and late time cosmology, galaxy and galaxy cluster dynamics. The modified gravity (MOG) theory extends general relativity (GR) by three extra degrees of freedom: a scalar field $G$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-30 J. W. Moffat

We propose an operator constraint equation for the wavefunction of the Universe that admits genuine evolution. While the corresponding classical theory is equivalent to the canonical decomposition of General Relativity, the quantum theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-03 Sean Gryb , Karim Thebault

Recently a remarkable relation has been demonstrated between the observed radial acceleration in disk galaxies and the acceleration predicted on the basis of baryonic matter alone. Here we study this relation within the framework of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-02 Katherine Jones-Smith , Roshan Abraham , Leo Kell , Harsh Mathur

A theory of special inconstancy, in which some fundamental physical constants such as the fine-structure and gravitational constants may vary, is proposed in pregeometry. In the special theory of inconstancy, the \alpha-G relation of…

General Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Hidezumi Terazawa

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

In default of a fundamental MOND theory -- a FUNDAMOND -- I advocate that, alongside searching for one, we should try to identify predictions that follow from wide classes of MOND theories, if not necessarily from all. In particular,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Mordehai Milgrom

We present a new test of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) on galactic scales, based on the escape speed in the solar neighbourhood. This test is independent from other empirical successes of MOND at reproducing the phenomenology of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-08 Benoit Famaey , Jean-Philippe Bruneton , HongSheng Zhao

The observed flat rotation curves of galaxies require either the presence of dark matter in Newtonian gravitational potentials or a significant modification to the theory of gravity at galactic scales. Detecting relativistic Doppler shifts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-15 Alan Cooney , Dimitrios Psaltis , Dennis Zaritsky

Dark Matter (DM) theories and mass-tracing-light theories like MOND are by construction nearly degenerate on galactic scales, but not when it comes to the predicted shapes of Roche Lobes of a two-body system (e.g., a globular cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 HongSheng Zhao , LanLan Tian

When bars form within galaxy formation simulations in the standard cosmological context, dynamical friction with dark matter (DM) causes them to rotate rather slowly. However, almost all observed galactic bars are fast in terms of the ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-30 Mahmood Roshan , Indranil Banik , Neda Ghafourian , Ingo Thies , Benoit Famaey , Elena Asencio , Pavel Kroupa

We determine the mean velocity dispersion of six Galactic outer halo globular clusters, AM 1, Eridanus, Pal 3, Pal 4, Pal 15, and Arp 2 in the weak acceleration regime to test classical vs. modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). Owing to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Hosein Haghi , Holger Baumgardt , Pavel Kroupa

We propose a technique to test the idea that non-standard dynamics, rather than dark matter halos, might be responsible for the observed rotation curves of spiral galaxies. In the absence of non-luminous matter, a galactic disk's rotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher W. Stubbs , Arti Garg

A better understanding of the formation of mass structures in the universe can be obtained by determining the amount and distribution of dark and luminous matter in spiral galaxies. To investigate such matters a sample of 12 galaxies, most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Roelof Bottema , Jose Luis G. Pestana

The measured rotation velocity profiles of mature spiral galaxies are successfully described with a gravitational model consisting of a thin axisymmetric disk of finte radius. The disk is assumed uniformly thin but with variable radial mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-06 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

The strong equivalence principle is violated by gravity theories of Milgromian dynamics (MOND) through the action of the external field effect. We test two different Lagrangian theories AQUAL and QUMOND based on their numerical solutions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Kyu-Hyun Chae , Federico Lelli , Harry Desmond , Stacy S. McGaugh , James M. Schombert

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

This work studies the cosmology of $\chi^{3/2}$-MOND gravity by Bernal et. al. (2011). This theory is a modification to Einstein's General Relativity (GR) that uses a dimensionless curvature scalar $\chi$ by rescaling the Ricci scalar $R$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-31 Donniel Cruz , Emmanuel Rodulfo

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 use a one dimensional hydrodynamical code to study the evolution of spherically symmetric perturbations in the framework of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). The code evolves spherical gaseous shells in an expanding Universe by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Adi Nusser , Etienne Pointecouteau