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We analyse the rotation curves and gravitational stability of a sample of six bulgeless galaxies for which detailed images reveal no evidence for strong bars. We explore two scenarios: Newtonian dark matter models and MOdified Newtonian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , E. Martinez-Gomez , V. M. Aguirre-Torres , H. M. Hernandez-Toledo

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) at low acceleration has been astonishingly powerful at explaining the flat rotation curve of galaxies and the relation between the baryonic content of the galaxies and their observed circular velocity,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Abraham Loeb

I use the distances and motions of Local Group galaxies to test Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). The old Local Group timing argument of Kahn & Woltjer, which assumed Newtonian gravity and a simple radial orbit, indicated that the total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-17 Yan-Chi Shi

The Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) has been formulated as a modification of the Poisson equation for the Newtonian gravitational field. This theory generically predicts a violation of the strong version of the equivalence principle, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-26 Luc Blanchet , Jerome Novak

The Radial Acceleration Relation (RAR) shows a strong correlation between two accelerations associated to galaxy rotation curves. The relation between these accelerations is given by a nonlinear function which depends on an acceleration…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-12 Valerio Marra , Davi C. Rodrigues , Álefe O. F. de Almeida

Dark matter seems to account for flat velocity curves in spiral galaxies, with further evidence for dark matter from observations of the colliding "bullet cluster" galaxies 1E0657-56. However, the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation and the mass…

General Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 T. R. Mongan

We propose that future experiments aiming at the detection of deviations from the inverse square gravitational law on submillimetric scales can be used to test the modified Newtonian dynamics theory (MOND). Current experiments are able to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sandro O. Mendes , Reuven Opher

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) has long been known to fail in galaxy clusters, implying a residual missing mass problem for clusters in this context. Here, using mass profiles derived from strong- and weak-lensing shear, as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Benoit Famaey , Lorenzo Pizzuti , Ippocratis D. Saltas

In a recent paper, Kaplinghat and Turner (2001) (KT) advertise that MOND can be derived naturally in the CDM paradigm. They actually proceed to produce a more limited result: Every galaxy should have a transition radius, $r_t$, below which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Mordehai Milgrom

The Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) paradigm generically predicts that the external gravitational field in which a system is embedded can produce effects on its internal dynamics. In this communication, we first show that this External…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-10 A. Hees , B. Famaey , G. W. Angus , G. Gentile

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

The rotation curves and the relative mass distributions of the two nearby Local Group spiral galaxies, M31 and M33, show discrepancies with Modified Newtonian dynamic (MOND) predictions. In M33 the discrepancy lies in the kinematics of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Edvige Corbelli , Paolo Salucci

We point out an interesting theoretical prediction for elliptical galaxies residing inside galaxy clusters in the framework of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), that could be used to test this paradigm. Apart from the central brightest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xufen Wu , HongSheng Zhao , Benoit Famaey

We study geometries of galactic rotation curves from Dark Matter (DM) and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) models in $(g_{\rm bar},g_{\rm tot})$-space ($g2$-space) where $g_{\rm tot}$ is the total centripetal acceleration of matter in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-29 Mads T. Frandsen , Jonas Petersen

The recent findings of Romanowsky et al., of an ``unexpectedly'' small mass discrepancy within 5 effective radii in several elliptical galaxies, are not surprising in the context of MOND. As we show here, they are, in fact, in full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mordehai Milgrom , Robert H. Sanders

The competition between CDM and MOND to account for the `missing mass' phenomena is asymmetric. MOND has clearly demonstrated that a characteristic acceleration $a_0$ underlies the data and understanding what gives rise to $a_0$ is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Binney

We explore the possibility that Milgrom's Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is a manifestation of the modification of inertia at small accelerations. Consistent with the Tully-Fisher relation, dynamics in the small acceleration domain may…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-09 Fathi Namouni

The contemporary cosmic expansion is considered in the context of Modified Friedmann Dynamics (MOFD). We discuss some relativistic model exploring analogy to MOND modification of Newtonian dynamics. We argue that MOFD cosmologies can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-28 M. Szydlowski , W. Godlowski , J. Golbiak

For a point mass residing in an expanding universe, within General Relativity (GR), a new metric [1} is found to lead to a cosmological background dependent MOND-like acceleration in addition to the Newtonian acceleration. In [2], we study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-28 James C. C. Wong

Models of "modified-inertia" formulation of MOND are described and applied to nonrelativistic many-body systems. They involve time-nonlocal equations of motion. Momentum, angular momentum, and energy are (nonlocally) defined, whose total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-03 Mordehai Milgrom