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The ultra-diffuse dwarf galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 (DF2) has ten (eleven) measured globular clusters (GCs) with a line-of-sight velocity dispersion of $\sigma=7.8^{+5.2}_{-2.2}\,$km/s ($\sigma=10.6^{+3.9}_{-2.3}\,$km/s). Our conventional…

We apply Newtonian Fractional-Dimension Gravity (NFDG), an alternative gravitational model, to some notable cases of galaxies with little or no dark matter. In the case of the ultra-diffuse galaxy AGC 114905, we show that NFDG methods can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Gabriele U. Varieschi

Recent observations of anomalous line-of-sight velocity dispersions of two ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) provide a stringent test for modified gravity theories. While NGC 1052-DF2 exhibits an extremely low dispersion value ($\sigma \sim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-04 Tousif Islam

The dwarf galaxy NGC1052-DF2 has recently been identified as potentially lacking dark matter. If correct, this could be a challenge for MOND, which predicts that low surface brightness galaxies should evince large mass discrepancies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 B. Famaey , S. McGaugh , M. Milgrom

The thermal history of the Universe is included in the Debye Gravitational Theory (DGT) to describe the speed of rotation of the galaxies. The DGT incorporate the temperature of Debye in the entropic gravitational theory. According to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-12 Carlos E. Navia

We employ a new way to measure the distance to NGC1052-DF2 via internal stellar velocity dispersions ($\sigma$) of its globular clusters (GCs). We obtained deep (15.1h), R=18,200, Ca Triplet integrated-light spectra for 10 GCs in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-14 Michael A. Beasley , Katja Fahrion , Sergio Guerra Arencibia , Anastasia Gvozdenko , Mireia Montes

Recently, \cite{vanDokkum2018} have presented an important discovery of an ultra diffuse galaxy, NGC1052-DF2, with a dark matter content significantly less than predicted from its stellar mass alone. The analysis relies on measured radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-03 Adi Nusser

The so-called ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC~1052-DF2 was announced to be a galaxy lacking dark matter based on a spectroscopic study of its constituent globular clusters. Here we present the first spectroscopic analysis of the stellar body of…

The NGC 1052 group, and in particular the discovery of two ultra diffuse galaxies with very low internal velocity dispersions, has been the subject of much attention recently. Here we present radial velocities for a sample of 77 globular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Duncan A. Forbes , Adebusola Alabi , Jean P. Brodie , Aaron J. Romanowsky

While most dwarf galaxies are strongly dark matter dominated, two remarkable objects in the NGC 1052 field, DF2 and DF4, appear to lack dark matter. DF2 and DF4 were recently found to be part of a trail of low luminosity galaxies that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-18 Michael A. Keim , Pieter van Dokkum , Zili Shen , Shany Danieli , Imad Pasha

The velocity dispersion of the ultra diffuse galaxy NGC1052-DF2 was found to be $\sigma_{\rm gc}=7.8^{+5.2}_{-2.2} \ \mathrm{kms^{-1}}$, much lower than expected from the stellar mass -- halo mass relation and nearly identical to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Shany Danieli , Pieter van Dokkum , Charlie Conroy , Roberto Abraham , Aaron J. Romanowsky

The temperature profile of hot gas in galaxies and galaxy clusters is largely determined by the depth of the total gravitational potential and thereby by the dark matter (DM) distribution. We use high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations…

The ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) NGC1052-DF2 has a low dark matter content and hosts a very unusual globular cluster (GC) population, with a median luminosity $\sim4$ times higher than in most galaxies and containing about 5~per~cent of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-04 Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Benjamin W. Keller , Marta Reina-Campos

The discovery of quiescent, dark matter (DM)-deficient ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) with overluminous globular clusters (GCs) has challenged galaxy formation models within the Lambda Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological paradigm.…

NGC1052-DF2 was recently discovered as the dark-matter deficient galaxy claimed by van Dokkum et al. (2018a, vD18). However, large uncertainties on its dynamical mass estimate have been pointed out, concerning the paucity of sample,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Kohei Hayashi , Shigeki Inoue

The recent "bullet-dwarf" model proposes that high-velocity collisions between dwarf galaxies can produce stellar systems with overluminous globular clusters (GCs) and a deficiency of dark matter, as observed in the NGC 1052 group galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Maria Luisa Buzzo , Pieter van Dokkum , Michael Hilker , Duncan A. Forbes , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Yimeng Tang

NGC 1052-DF2, an ultra diffuse galaxy (UDG), has been the subject of intense debate. Its alleged absence of dark matter, and the brightness and number excess of its globular clusters (GCs) at an initially assumed distance of 20Mpc,…

It has been suggested that a trail of diffuse galaxies, including two dark matter deficient galaxies (DMDGs), in the vicinity of NGC1052 formed because of a high-speed collision between two gas-rich dwarf galaxies, one bound to NGC1052 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Go Ogiya , Frank C. van den Bosch , Andreas Burkert , Xi Kang

Using ultra-deep imaging ($\mu_g = 30.4$ mag/arcsec$^2$; 3$\sigma$, 10"x10"), we probed the surroundings of the first galaxy "lacking" dark matter KKS2000[04] (NGC 1052-DF2). Signs of tidal stripping in this galaxy would explain its claimed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Mireia Montes , Ignacio Trujillo , Raúl Infante-Sainz , Matteo Monelli , Alejandro S. Borlaff

The surface gravities of cool (Teff < 13,000 K) hydrogen-atmosphere DA white dwarfs, determined from spectroscopic analyses, are found to be significantly higher than the canonical value of log g ~ 8 expected for these stars. It was…

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