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Our modified gravity theory (MOG) is a gravitational theory without exotic dark matter, based on an action principle. MOG has been used successfully to model astrophysical phenomena such as galaxy rotation curves, galaxy cluster masses, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-25 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

In this work, we investigate the MOdified Gravity (MOG) theory for dynamics of the universe and compare the results with the $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We study the background cosmological properties of the MOG model and structure formation at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-17 Zahra Davari , Sohrab Rahvar

As an alternative to the LCDM concordance model, Scalar-Tensor-Vector Modified Gravity (MOG) theory reproduces key cosmological observations without postulating the presence of an exotic dark matter component. MOG is a field theory based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Viktor T. Toth

In this paper, we have investigated one of the alternative theories to dark matter named MOdified Gravity (MOG) by testing its ability to describe the local dynamics of the Milky Way in vertical and transverse directions with the baryonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-15 Zahra Davari , Sohrab Rahvar

A simple model for the dynamics of the Magellanic Stream (MS), in the framework of modified gravity models is investigated. We assume that the galaxy is made up of baryonic matter out of context of dark matter scenario. The model we used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Hosein Haghi , Sohrab Rahvar

The MOdified Gravity (MOG) theory of J. Moffat assumes a massive vector particle which causes a repulsive contribution to the tensor gravitation. For the galaxy cluster A1689 new data for the X-ray gas and the strong lensing properties are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Theodorus M. Nieuwenhuizen , Andrea Morandi , Marceau Limousin

MOG is a fully relativistic modified theory of gravity based on an action principle. The MOG field equations are exactly solvable numerically in two important cases. In the spherically symmetric, static case of a gravitating mass, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-25 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

Modified gravity (MOG) is a covariant, relativistic, alternative gravitational theory whose field equations are derived from an action that supplements the spacetime metric tensor with vector and scalar fields. Both gravitational (spin 2)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 M. A. Green , J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

We study the gravitomagnetism in the Scalar-Vector-Tensor theory or Moffat's Modified theory of Gravity(MOG). We compute the gravitomagnetic field that a slow-moving mass distribution produces in its Newtonian regime. We report that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-14 Qasem Exirifard

MOdified Gravity (MOG) is a covariant modification of Einstein's general relativity. This theory is one of the current alternatives to dark matter models. We describe dynamics of collisionless self-gravitating systems in the context of MOG.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-24 Mahmood Roshan , Shahram Abbassi

As an alternative to dark matter models, MOdified Gravity (MOG) theory can compensate for dark matter by a covariant modification of Einstein gravity. The theory introduces two additional scalar fields and one vector field. The aim is to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 J. W. Moffat , S. Rahvar

Astrophysical data analysis of the weak-field predictions support the claim that modified gravity (MOG) theories provide a self-consistent, scale-invariant, universal description of galaxy rotation curves, without the need of non-baryonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-09 J. R. Brownstein

The equation of motion in the generally covariant modified gravity (MOG) theory leads, for weak gravitational fields and non-relativistic motion, to a modification of Newton's gravitational acceleration law. In addition to the metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-24 M. A. Green , J. W. Moffat

Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity (STVG), also referred as MOdified Gravity (MOG), is an alternative theory of the gravitational interaction. Its weak field approximation has been successfully used to described Solar System observations, galaxy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-02 Federico G. Lopez Armengol , Gustavo E. Romero

We explore the cosmological consequences of Modified Gravity (MOG), and find that it provides, using a minimal number of parameters, good fits to data, including CMB temperature anisotropy, galaxy power spectrum, and supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-05 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

We consider the cosmological consequences of a special scalar-tensor-vector theory of gravity, known as MOG (for MOdified Gravity), proposed to address the dark matter problem. This theory introduces two scalar fields $G(x)$ and $\mu(x)$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Sara Jamali , Mahmood Roshan , Luca Amendola

Scalar Tensor Vector Gravity(STVG) is a fully covariant Lorentz invariant alternative theory of gravity also called as MOdified Gravity(MOG) which modifies General Relativity(GR) with dynamical massive vector field and scalar fields. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Sreekanth Harikumar , Marek Biesiada

A covariant modified gravity (MOG) is formulated by adding to general relativity two new degrees of freedom, a scalar field gravitational coupling strength $G= 1/\chi$ and a gravitational spin 1 vector field $\phi_\mu$. The $G$ is written…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 J. W. Moffat

A relativistic modified gravity (MOG) theory leads to a self-consistent, stable gravity theory that can describe the solar system, galaxy and clusters of galaxies data and cosmology.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. W. Moffat

We have found some analytical cosmological solutions to MOdified Gravity (MOG). These solutions describe different evolutionary epochs of an isotropic and homogeneous universe. During each epoch, the evolution of cosmological perturbation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-04 Fatimah Shojai , Samira Cheraghchi , Hamed Bouzari Nezhad
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