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In a recent publication, the flexion aperture mass statistic was found to provide a robust and effective method by which substructure in galaxy clusters might be mapped. Moreover, we suggested that the masses and mass profile of structures…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Adrienne Leonard , Lindsay J. King , David M. Goldberg

We propose a new cosmological test of gravity, by using the observed mass fraction of X-ray emitting gas in massive galaxy clusters. The cluster gas fraction, believed to be a fair sample of the average baryon fraction in the Universe, is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Baojiu Li , Jian-hua He , Liang Gao

The weak lensing of cosmic web filaments is investigated in modified gravity (MOG) and it is demonstrated that the detected galaxies and baryonic gas of order $5-15 \%$ in filaments can with the enhanced value of the strength of gravity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 J. W. Moffat

To further test MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) on galactic scales -- originally proposed to explain the rotation curves of disk galaxies without dark matter -- we study a sample of six strong gravitational lensing early-type galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ignacio Ferreras , Mairi Sakellariadou , Muhammad Furqaan Yusaf

A modified gravity (MOG) possesses a light, neutral vector particle called a ``phion'' associated with a vector field $\phi^\mu$, which forms a cold fluid of Bose-Einstein condensates before recombination with zero pressure and zero shear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

Cosmological models that invoke warm or cold dark matter can not explain observed regularities in the properties of dwarf galaxies, their highly anisotropic spatial distributions, nor the correlation between observed mass discrepancies and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-22 Pavel Kroupa , Marcel Pawlowski , Mordehai Milgrom

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) has long been known to fail in galaxy clusters, implying a residual missing mass problem for clusters in this context. Here, using mass profiles derived from strong- and weak-lensing shear, as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Benoit Famaey , Lorenzo Pizzuti , Ippocratis D. Saltas

The shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity (MOG) black holes are determined by the two parameters mass $M$ and angular momentum $J=Ma$. The sizes of the shadows cast by the spherically symmetric static Schwarzschild-MOG…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-26 J. W. Moffat

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) and similar proposals can (at least partially) explain the excess rotation of galaxies or the equivalent mass-discrepancy acceleration, without (or by reducing) the requirement of dark matter halos. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Robert Monjo

The dark energy-cold dark matter paradigm ($\Lambda$CDM) has gained widespread acceptance because it explains the pattern of anisotropies observed in the cosmic microwave background radiation, the observed distribution of large scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-03 Robert H. Sanders

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

NGC1277 is a compact but massive lenticular galaxy that shows no signs of the presence of dark matter. We find that this galaxy's behavior is consistent not only with Newtonian dynamics, but also with the predictions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-28 John W. Moffat , Viktor T. Toth

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

Testing Newtonian gravity in the weak-acceleration regime is vital to our understanding of the nature of the gravitational interaction. It has recently been claimed that the velocity dispersion profiles of several globular clusters flatten…

Many models have been proposed to minimize the dark matter (DM) content in various astronomical objects at every scale in the Universe. The most widely known model isMOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). MOND was first published by Mordehai…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Gianni Pascoli

We revisit the application of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) to galaxy clusters. We confront the high quality X-ray data for eight clusters of galaxies observed by the \xmm satellite with the predictions of MOND. We obtain a ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Etienne Pointecouteau , Joseph Silk

By the time, in 1937, the Swiss astronomer Zwicky measured the velocity dispersion of the Coma cluster of galaxies, astronomers somehow got acquainted with the idea that the universe is filled by some kind of dark matter. After almost a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Riccardo Scarpa

The phenomenology of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) on galaxy scales may point to more fundamental theories of either modified gravity (MG) or modified inertia (MI). In this paper, we test the applicability of the global deep-MOND…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-22 Jonas Petersen , Federico Lelli

There is a long-standing discrepancy between galaxy cluster masses determined from X-ray and gravitational lensing observations of which Abell 1689 is a well-studied example. In this work we take advantage of 180 ks of Chandra X-ray…

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
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