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In a recent paper, Erik Verlinde has developed the interesting possibility that spacetime and gravity may emerge from the entangled structure of an underlying microscopic theory. In this picture, dark matter arises as a response to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Gustavo Niz

In 2016 McGaugh, Lelli and Schombert established a universal Radial Acceleration Relation for centripetal accelerations in spiral galaxies. Their work showed a strong correlation between observed centripetal accelerations and those…

In spiral galaxies, we explain their non-Keplerian rotation curves (RCs) by means of a non-luminous component embedding their stellar-gaseous disks. Understanding the detailed properties of this component (labelled Dark Matter, DM) is one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-21 Gianluca Castignani , Noemi Frusciante , Daniele Vernieri , Paolo Salucci

The radial acceleration relation (RAR) links observed and baryonic accelerations, and is best established in rotation curves of late-type galaxies. Pulsar timing, which measures line-of-sight (LOS) differential accelerations between the Sun…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Tariq Yasin , Harry Desmond

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…

We apply Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and Verlinde's emergent gravity separately to calculate the radial accelerations in 23 dwarf spheroidals. Then, we compare them with the observed radial accelerations. In our earlier work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-02 Youngsub Yoon , Sanghyeon Han , Ho Seong Hwang

The standard theory of galaxy formation predicts that all galaxies should contain dark matter, yet a handful of recently discovered galaxies appear to lack it, challenging our understanding of galaxy formation. We investigate whether such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 Michal Bílek

We carry out a test of the radial acceleration relation (RAR) for a sample of 10 dynamically relaxed and cool-core galaxy clusters imaged by the Chandra X-ray telescope, which was studied in Giles et al. For this sample, we observe that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 S. Pradyumna , Shantanu Desai

General relativity (GR) is the most successful theory of gravity, with great observational support on local scales. However, to keep GR valid over cosmic scales, some phenomena (such as flat galaxy rotation curves and the cosmic expansion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Robert Monjo , Indranil Banik

Observations indicate that ordinary matter, the baryons, influence the structural properties of dark matter on galactic scales. One such indication is the radial acceleration relation, which is a tight correlation between the measured…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Olga Chashchina , Robert Foot , Zurab Silagadze

We have recently introduced in paper I an extension of the Ruffini-Arg\"uelles-Rueda (RAR) model for the distribution of DM in galaxies, by including for escape of particle effects. Being built upon self-gravitating fermions at finite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-05 C. R. Argüelles , A. Krut , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

The radial acceleration relation (RAR) represents a tight empirical relation between the inferred total and baryonic centripetal accelerations, $g_{\rm{tot}}=GM_{\rm{tot}}(<r)/r^2$ and $g_{\rm{bar}}=GM_{\rm{bar}}(<r)/r^2$, observed in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-25 Sut-Ieng Tam , Keiichi Umetsu , Andrew Robertson , Ian G. McCarthy

An impact model of gravity designed to emulate Newton's law of gravitation is applied to the radial acceleration of disk galaxies. Based on this model (Wilhelm et al. 2013), the rotation velocity curves can be understood without the need to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-11 K. Wilhelm , B. N. Dwivedi

We study the link between baryons and dark matter in 240 galaxies with spatially resolved kinematic data. Our sample spans 9 dex in stellar mass and includes all morphological types. We consider (i) 153 late-type galaxies (LTGs; spirals and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Federico Lelli , Stacy S. McGaugh , James M. Schombert , Marcel S. Pawlowski

We study the radial acceleration relation (RAR) for early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the SDSS MaNGA MPL5 dataset. The complete ETG sample show a slightly offset RAR from the relation reported by McGaugh et al. (2016) at the low-acceleration…

The dark matter (DM) haloes around spiral galaxies appear to conspire with their baryonic content: empirically, significant amounts of DM are inferred only below a universal characteristic acceleration scale. Moreover, the discrepancy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Joachim Janz , Michele Cappellari , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Luca Ciotti , Adebusola Alabi , Duncan A. Forbes

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

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

The tight radial acceleration relation (RAR) obeyed by rotationally supported disk galaxies is one of the most successful a priori predictions of the modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) paradigm on galaxy scales. Another important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 J. Freundlich , B. Famaey , P. -A. Oria , M. Bílek , O. Müller , R. Ibata

We assume that the individual stars which are located at the peripheral parts of the spiral galaxies are experiencing a drag force acting upon them radially. Such a force might be produced by some sort of a dynamically generated viscous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-08 M. B. Altaie , N. R. Suleiman