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Since the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe in 1998, modified gravity (MG) theories have attracted considerable attention as alternatives to dark energy (DE). While distinguishing the effects of MG from those of DE…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-16 Alejandro Aviles

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) can be obtained by modifying the entropic formulation of gravity, this is achieved by considering the quantum statistical nature of the degrees of freedom on the holographic screen. Through this frame…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-27 Ehoud Pazy

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

I estimate Modified-Dynamics (MOND), median M/L values for recently published catalogues of galaxy groups. While the median, Newtonian M/L values quoted for these catalogues are 110-200 solar units, the corresponding values for MOND are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Mordehai Milgrom

Clusters of galaxies offer a robust test bed for probing the nature of dark matter that is insensitive to the assumption of the gravity theories. Both Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and General Relativity (GR) would require similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Priyamvada Natarajan , Hongsheng Zhao

The empirical mass discrepancy-acceleration (MDA) relation of disk galaxies provides a key test for models of galactic dynamics. In terms of modified laws of gravity and/or inertia, the MDA relation quantifies the transition from Newtonian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Sascha Trippe

Mass models of 15 nearby dwarf and spiral galaxies are presented. The galaxies are selected to be homogeneous in terms of the method used to determine their distances, the sampling of their rotation curves (RCs) and the mass-to-light ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Toky Randriamampandry , Claude Carignan

The Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and the Universal Rotation Curve (URC) are two ways to describe the general properties of rotation curves, with very different approaches concerning dark matter and gravity. Phenomenological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gianfranco Gentile

We developed self-consistent dynamical models of stellar systems in the framework of quasi-linear modified Newtonian dynamics (QUMOND). The models are constructed from the anisotropic distribution function of Gunn & Griffin (1979), combined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 A. Sollima , C. Nipoti , F. Calura , R. Pascale , H. Baumgardt

The MOND paradigm posits a departure from standard Newtonian dynamics, and from General Relativity, in the limit of small accelerations. The resulting modified dynamics aim to account for the mass discrepancies in the universe without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-09 Mordehai Milgrom

In view of the negative results from various dark matter detection experiments, we had earlier proposed an alternate theoretical framework through Modification of Newtonian Gravity (MONG). Here, the Poison's equation is modified by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Louise Rebecca , Dominic Sebastian , C Sivaram , Kenath Arun

MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is an alternative to the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm which proposes an alteration of Newton's laws of motion at low accelerations, characterized by a universal acceleration scale a_0. It…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Alexander C. Mayer , Adelheid F. Teklu , Klaus Dolag , Rhea-Silvia Remus

A new class of modified gravity theories, made possible by subtle features of the canonical formulation of general covariance, naturally allows MOND-like behavior (MOdified Newtonian Dynamics) in effective space-time solutions without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Martin Bojowald , Erick I. Duque

The MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is an attempt to modify the gravitation theory to solve the Dark Matter problem. This phenomenology is very successful at the galactic level. The main effect produced by MOND in the Solar System is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-14 A. Hees , W. M. Folkner , R. A. Jacobson , R. S. Park

The modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), suggested by Milgrom as an alternative to dark matter, implies that isothermal spheres with a fixed anisotropy parameter should exhibit a near perfect relation between the mass and the fourth power of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. H. Sanders

Unlike Newtonian dynamics which is linear and obeys the strong equivalence principle, in any nonlinear gravitation such as Milgromian dynamics (MOND), the strong version of the equivalence principle is violated and the gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Hosein Haghi , Amir E. Bazkiaei , Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Pavel Kroupa

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 report an updated constraint on the Solar System quadrupole parameter $Q_2$, which encodes the external field effect predicted by modified gravity versions of the MOND paradigm. Using the dataset employed to compute the DE440 planetary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 R. S. Park , A. Hees , B. Famaey , H. Desmond , A. Durakovic

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is a gravitational framework designed to explain the astronomical observations in the Universe without the inclusion of particle dark matter. Modified Newtonian Dynamics, in its current form, cannot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Alistair Hodson , Hongsheng Zhao

We compare the measurement of the gravitational mass of 38 high-redshift galaxy clusters observed by Chandra using Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and standard Newtonian gravity. Our analysis confirms earlier findings that MOND cannot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 Carl Blaksley , Massimiliano Bonamente