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We extend the MOND analysis to a sample of 17 high surface brightness, early-type disc galaxies with rotation curves derived from a combination of 21cm HI line observations and optical spectroscopic data. A number of these galaxies have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. H. Sanders , E. Noordermeer

A speculative mathematical model is used to generate the modified Newtonian dynamics called MOND from fluctuations of the number of quanta of quantized acceleration. The one new parameter can be chosen either to make the transition to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas F. Jordan

MOND-- modified Newtonian dynamics-- may be viewed as an algorithm for calculating the distribution of force in an astronomical object from the observed distribution of baryonic matter. The fact that it works for galaxies is quite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-17 R. H. Sanders

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

We examine the implications of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) on the large scale structure in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. We employ a ``Jeans swindle'' to write a MOND-type relationship between the fluctuations in the density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adi Nusser

It is well-known that the application of Newtonian dynamics to an expanding spherical region leads to the correct relativistic expression (the Friedmann equation) for the evolution of the cosmic scale factor. Here, the cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. H. Sanders

MOND predicts that the asymptotic gravitational potential of an isolated, bounded (baryonic) mass, M, is phi(r)=(MGa0)^{1/2}ln(r); a0 is the MOND constant. Relativistic MOND theories predict that the lensing effects of M are dictated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-26 Mordehai Milgrom

Accepting that galactic mass discrepancies are due to modified dynamics, I show why it is specifically the MOND paradigm that is pointed to cogently. MOND is thus discussed here as a special case of a larger class of modified dynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-13 Mordehai Milgrom

MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is an interesting alternative to dark matter in extragalactic systems. We here examine the possibility that mild or even strong MOND behavior may become evident well inside the solar system, in particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacob Bekenstein , Joao Magueijo

No more salient issue exists in contemporary astrophysics and cosmology than that of the elusive "dark matter". For many years already Milgrom's paradigm of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) has provided an alternative way to interpret…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob D. Bekenstein

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) and similar proposals can (at least partially) explain the excess rotation of galaxies or the equivalent mass-discrepancy acceleration, without (or by reducing) the requirement of dark matter halos. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Robert Monjo

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a possible way to explain the flat galaxy rotation curves without invoking the existence of dark matter. It is however quite difficult to predict such a phenomenology in a consistent field theory, free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Jean-Philippe Bruneton , Gilles Esposito-Farese

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), which postulates a breakdown of Newton's laws of gravity/dynamics below some critical acceleration threshold, can explain many otherwise puzzling observational phenomena on galactic scales. MOND competes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-15 David Vokrouhlický , David Nesvorný , Scott Tremaine

This paper introduces a possible alternative model of gravity based on the theory of fractional-dimension spaces and its applications to Newtonian gravity. In particular, Gauss's law for gravity as well as other fundamental classical laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-09 Gabriele U. Varieschi

Dark matter is the generally accepted paradigm in astrophysics and cosmology as a solution to the higher rate of rotation in galaxies, among many other reasons. But since there are still some problems encountered by the standard dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Hanna A. Sabat , Raed Z. Bani-Abdoh , Marwan S. Mousa

From a study of conserved quantities of the so-called Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) we propose an alternative to this theory. We show that this proposal is consistent with the Tully-Fisher law, has conserved quantities whose Newtonian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan M. Romero , Adolfo Zamora

Observations of galaxies suggest a one-to-one analytic relation between the inferred gravity of dark matter at any radius and the enclosed baryonic mass, a relation summarized by Milgrom's law of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-Philippe Bruneton , Stefano Liberati , Lorenzo Sindoni , Benoit Famaey

Explaining the effects of dark matter using modified gravitational dynamics (MOND) has for decades been both an intriguing and controversial possibility. By insisting that the gravitational interaction that accounts for the Newtonian force…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arthur Lue , Glenn D. Starkman

Gravitational potentials in the cosmos are deeper than expected from observed visible objects, a phenomenon usually attributed to dark matter, presumably in the form of a new fundamental particle. Until such a particle is observed, the jury…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-07 Scott Dodelson

Conformal geometry is considered within a general relativistic framework. An invariant distant for proper time is defined and a parallel displacement is applied in the distorted space-time, modifying Einstein's equation appropriately. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Edmund A. Chadwick , Timothy F. Hodgkinson , Graham S. McDonald