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We apply the modified acceleration law obtained from Einstein gravity coupled explaining galaxy rotation curves without exotic dark matter. Our sample of galaxies includes low surface brightness (LSB) and high surface brightness (HSB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. R. Brownstein , J. W. Moffat

We construct a consistency test of General Relativity (GR) on cosmological scales. This test enables us to distinguish between the two alternatives to explain the late-time accelerated expansion of the universe, that is, dark energy models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Yong-Seon Song , Kazuya Koyama

The existence of the flat rotation curves of galaxies is still perplexing. The dark matter paradigm was proposed long ago to solve this conundrum; however, this proposal is still under debate. In this paper, we search for universal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-25 G. Pascoli

We show how observations of multiply-imaged quasars at high redshift can be used as a probe of dark matter clumps (subhalos with masses ~ 10^9 solar masses) within the virialized extent of more massive lensing halos. A large abundance of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Benton Metcalf , Piero Madau

Many cosmological observations call for the existence of dark matter. The most direct evidence for dark matter is inferred from the measured flatness of galactic rotation curves. The latter is based on Newtonian gravity. Alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-19 Aleksandar Rakic , Dominik J. Schwarz

We introduce a Bayesian solution to the problem of inferring the density profile of strong gravitational lenses when the lens galaxy may contain multiple dark or faint substructures. The source and lens models are based on a superposition…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-12 Brendon J. Brewer , David Huijser , Geraint F. Lewis

The degeneracy between the disk and the dark matter contribution to galaxy rotation curves remains an important uncertainty in our understanding of disk galaxies. Here we discuss a new method for breaking this degeneracy using gravitational…

We investigate the rotation curve of the Milky Way using a multi-component mass model including a stellar disk, a gaseous disk, a bulge/bar component, and a dark-matter halo. The stellar and gas contributions are calibrated using recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-17 Zi Liu

Dark Matter (DM) and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) models of rotationally supported galaxies lead to curves with different geometries in $(g_{N},g_{tot})$-space ($g2$-space). Here $g_{tot}$ is the total acceleration and $g_{N}$ is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-04 Jonas Petersen , Mads T. Frandsen

The analysis of perturbative quantities is a powerful tool to distinguish between different Dark Energy models and gravity theories degenerated at the background level. In this work, we generalise the integral solution of the matter density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 J. E. Gonzalez

We obtain more straightforwardly some features of dark matter distribution in the halos of galaxies by considering the spherically symmetric space-time, which satisfies the flat rotational curve condition, and the geometric equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-21 Ugur Camci

Motivated by possible observations of the black hole candidate in the center of our galaxy and the galaxy M87, ray-tracing methods are applied to both standard General Relativity (GR) and a recently proposed extension, the pseudo-complex…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-10 T. Schönenbach , G. Caspar , P. O. Hess , T. Boller , A. Müller , M. Schäfer , W. Greiner

Dark matter is estimated to make up ~84% of all normal/baryonic matter, but cannot be directly imaged. Despite the fact that dark matter cannot be directly observed yet, its influence on the motion of stars and gas in spiral galaxies have…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-08-10 A. N. Villano , Kitty C. Harris , Judit Bergfalk , Raphael Hatami , Francis Vititoe , Julia Johnston

Galactic rotation curves have proven to be the testing ground for dark matter bounds in spiral galaxies of all morphologies. Dwarf galaxies serve as an increasingly interesting case of rotation curve dynamics due to their typically rising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-10 James G. O'Brien , Thomas L. Chiarelli , Jeremy Dentico , Modestas Stulge , Brian Stefanski , Robert Moss , Spasen Chaykov

We introduce a new method for the identification of galaxy systems in redshift surveys based on the halo model. This method is a modified version of the K-means identification algorithm developed by Yang et al (2005). We have calibrated and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-20 Mariano Javier de León Domínguez Romero , Diego García Lambas , Hernán Muriel

Recently, it has been suggested that the phenomenology of flat rotation curves observed at large radii in the equatorial plane of disk galaxies can be explained as a manifestation of General Relativity instead of the effect of Dark Matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Luca Ciotti

Measuring the density profile of dark matter in the Solar neighborhood has important implications for both dark matter theory and experiment. In this work, we apply autoregressive flows to stars from a realistic simulation of a Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Matthew R Buckley , Sung Hak Lim , Eric Putney , David Shih

The existence of "dark matter", inferred from the observed rotation curves of galaxies, is a hypothesis which is widely regarded as problematic. This paper proposes an alternative hypothesis based on the space-time geometry near a rotating…

General Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 Colin Rourke

We explore the construction of diverse regular spacetimes (black holes and defects) in General Relativity (GR) using a generic parametrised density profile (the Dekel-Zhao profile), which includes, for specific parameter choices, various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Anjan Kar , Sayan Kar

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of the distribution of matter on sub-kpc scales. It can be used to test the existence of completely dark subhalos surrounding galaxies, as predicted by the standard cold dark matter model, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Ioana A. Zelko , Anna M. Nierenberg , Tommaso Treu