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Recent analysis \citep{McGaugh2016} of the SPARC galaxy sample found a surprisingly tight relation between the radial acceleration inferred from the rotation curves, and the acceleration due to the baryonic components of the disc. It has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-16 B. W. Keller , J. W. Wadsley

The Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation (BTFR) links baryonic mass of rotationally supported galaxies to their flat disk velocities. A popular form of the BTFR linked to MOND is based on an empirically determined characteristic acceleration, a0…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Jeffrey M. La Fortune

A strong correlation has been measured between the observed centripetal accelerations in galaxies and the accelerations implied by the baryonic components of galaxies. This empirical radial acceleration relation must be accounted for in any…

During the 2016 International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics (IWARA), the question was raised as to if conformal gravity could explain the timely result of McGaugh et. al. 2016 which showed a universal nature found in…

General Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 James G. O'Brien , Thomas L. Chiarelli , Mark A. Falcone , Muhannad H. AlQurashi

Recently, a tight correlation between the dynamical radial acceleration and the baryonic radial acceleration in galaxies - the radial acceleration relation - has been discovered. This has been claimed as an indirect support of the modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-17 Man Ho Chan , Ka Chung Law

We examine the origin of the mass discrepancy--radial acceleration relation (MDAR) of disk galaxies. This is a tight empirical correlation between the disk centripetal acceleration and that expected from the baryonic component. The MDAR…

We use a semi-empirical model to investigate the radial acceleration relation (RAR) in a cold dark matter (CDM) framework. Specifically, we build 80 model galaxies covering the same parameter space as the observed galaxies in the SPARC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Pengfei Li , Stacy S. McGaugh , Federico Lelli , Yong Tian , James M. Schombert , Chung-Ming Ko

I review methods and techniques to build mass models of disk galaxies from gas dynamics. I focus on two key steps: (1) the derivation of rotation curves using 3D emission-line datacubes from HI, CO, and/or H-alpha observations, and (2) the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Federico Lelli

Dark matter-baryon scaling relations in galaxies are important in order to constrain galaxy formation models. Here, we provide a modern quantitative assessment of those relations, by modelling the rotation curves of galaxies from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 Amir Ghari , Benoit Famaey , Chervin Laporte , Hosein Haghi

Galactic rotation curves exhibit diverse behavior in the inner regions, while obeying an organizing principle, i.e., they can be approximately described by a radial acceleration relation or the Modified Newtonian Dynamics phenomenology. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 Tao Ren , Anna Kwa , Manoj Kaplinghat , Hai-Bo Yu

We use the mass discrepancy-acceleration relation (the correlation between the ratio of total-to-visible mass and acceleration in galaxies; MDAR) to test the galaxy-halo connection. We analyse the MDAR using a set of 16 statistics that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-28 Harry Desmond

Observed rotation curves of disk galaxies remain a sharp empirical probe of the relationship between baryons and dynamics. We study a minimal, explicitly \emph{phenomenological} alternative to standard halo parameterizations: an additional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-07 Nalin Dhiman

The Radial Acceleration Relation confirms that a nontrivial acceleration scale can be found in the average internal dynamics of galaxies. The existence of such a scale is not obvious as far as the standard cosmological model is concerned,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-31 Davi C. Rodrigues , Valerio Marra , Antonino del Popolo , Zahra Davari

We show that ultra-light scalar dark matter (fuzzy dark matter) in galaxies has a quantum mechanical typical acceleration scale about $10^{-10}\,\mbox{ms}^{-2}$, which leads to the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation. Baryonic matter at central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-02 Jae-Weon Lee , Hyeong-Chan Kim , Jungjai Lee

We derive the radial acceleration of stars in galaxies by using basic features of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and general relativity. We assume that the "dark" component of the radial acceleration is originated from the reaction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-18 Matteo Tuveri , Mariano Cadoni

The mass discrepancy acceleration relation (MDAR) describes the coupling between baryons and dark matter (DM) in galaxies: the ratio of total-to-baryonic mass at a given radius anti-correlates with the acceleration due to baryons. The MDAR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Arianna Di Cintio , Federico Lelli

High precision spectrographs can enable not only the discovery of exoplanets, but can also provide a fundamental measurement in Galactic dynamics. Over about ten year baselines, the expected change in the line-of-sight velocity due to the…

This paper investigates the potential of Machian Gravity (MG), a five-dimensional theory of gravity, to explain the acceleration law governing rotationally bound systems, in particular spiral galaxies. MG was proposed as a framework capable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Santanu Das

The phenomenological basis for Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is the radial-acceleration-relation (RAR) between the observed acceleration, $a=V^2_{rot}(r)/r$, and the acceleration accounted for by the observed baryons (stars and cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 Aaron A. Dutton , Andrea V. Macciò , Aura Obreja , Tobias Buck

Most late-type stars in the solar neighborhood have velocities similar to the local standard of rest (LSR), but there is a clearly separated secondary component corresponding to a slower rotation and a mean outward motion. Detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Walter Dehnen