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We study geometries of galactic rotation curves from Dark Matter (DM) and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) models in $(g_{\rm bar},g_{\rm tot})$-space ($g2$-space) where $g_{\rm tot}$ is the total centripetal acceleration of matter in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-29 Mads T. Frandsen , Jonas Petersen

Large-distance modification of gravity may be the mechanism for solving the cosmological constant problem. A simple model of the large-distance modification -- four-dimensional (4D) gravity with the hard mass term-- is problematic from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Gabadadze , M. Shifman

We compare N-body simulations of isolated galaxies performed in both frameworks of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) and Newtonian gravity with dark matter (DM). We have developed a multigrid code able to efficiently solve the modified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Tiret , F. Combes

Milgrom noticed the remarkable fact that the gravitational effect of dark matter in galaxies only becomes important where accelerations are less than about 10^{-8} cm s^{-2} ~ cH_0. This forms the basis for his Modified Newtonian Dynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Manoj Kaplinghat , Michael S. Turner

This paper is the third in a series on tests of gravity using observations of stars and nearby dwarf galaxies. We carry out four distinct tests using published data on the kinematics and morphology of dwarf galaxies, motivated by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vinu Vikram , Anna Cabre , Bhuvnesh Jain , Jake VanderPlas

Mass discrepancies in galaxies are empirically known to appear only below a characteristic acceleration scale a0. Here we show that this behaviour is not limited to galaxies: it extends continuously across the full hierarchy of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-20 Robin Eappen , Pavel Kroupa

The maximal acceleration (MA) problem associated with the position-dependent rest mass concept is considered. New arguments in favor of the mass-dependent maximal acceleration (MDMA) are put forward. The hypothesis that there exists a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev M. Tomilchik , Vladimir V. Kudryashov

Typical stars in the Milky Way galaxy have velocities of hundreds of kilometres per second and experience gravitational accelerations of $\sim 10^{-10}$ m s$^{-2}$, resulting in velocity changes of a few centimetres per second over a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-18 Hamish Silverwood , Richard Easther

Dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies are ideal objects to test modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), because in most of these galaxies the accelerations fall below the threshold below where MOND supposedly applies. We have selected from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. A. Swaters , R. H. Sanders , S. S. McGaugh

We propose that future experiments aiming at the detection of deviations from the inverse square gravitational law on submillimetric scales can be used to test the modified Newtonian dynamics theory (MOND). Current experiments are able to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sandro O. Mendes , Reuven Opher

MOdified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) represents a phenomenological alternative to dark matter (DM) for the missing mass problem in galaxies and clusters of galaxies. We analyze the central regions of a local sample of $\sim 220$ early-type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. Tortora , A. J. Romanowsky , V. F. Cardone , N. R. Napolitano , Ph. Jetzer

Observations of galaxies suggest a one-to-one analytic relation between the inferred gravity of dark matter at any radius and the enclosed baryonic mass, a relation summarized by Milgrom's law of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-Philippe Bruneton , Stefano Liberati , Lorenzo Sindoni , Benoit Famaey

The discrepancy between two recently reported experimental values of the gravitational constant G was analysed within a differential version of MOND theory. In contrast to the most commonly accepted interpretation of MOND theory, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-14 Norbert Klein

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

General analytic arguments lead us to expect that in the modified dynamics (MOND) self-gravitating disks are more stable than their like in Newtonian dynamics. We study this question numerically, using a particle-mesh code based on a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Rafael Brada , Mordehai Milgrom

{Comparison of mass density profiles of galaxies of varying sizes based on some gravity theories from observed galaxy rotation curves and assessing the need for dark matter.} We present an analysis of the rotation curves of five galaxies of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-23 Rahul Datta , Dilip G. Banhatti

A recent analysis of data from the ESA Gaia mission demonstrated that the kinematics of stars in the Milky Way can be modelled without invoking the presence of dark matter whatsoever. Indeed, the higher-than-Keplerian velocities observed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-12 Davide Astesiano , Sergio L. Cacciatori , Massimo Dotti , Francesco Haardt , Federico Re

The stability of spiral galaxies is compared in modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and Newtonian dynamics with dark matter (DM). We extend our previous simulations that involved pure stellar discs without gas, to deal with the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Tiret , F. Combes

General relativity and its Newtonian weak field limit are not sufficient to explain the observed phenomenology in the Universe, from the formation of large-scale structures to the dynamics of galaxies, with the only presence of baryonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-19 Valentina Cesare

We investigate the possibility of discriminating between Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and Newtonian gravity with dark matter, by studying the vertical dynamics of disk galaxies. We consider models with the same circular velocity in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Carlo Nipoti , Pasquale Londrillo , HongSheng Zhao , Luca Ciotti