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Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is very sensitive to the cosmological expansion rate. If the gravitational constant $G$ took a different value during the nucleosynthesis epoch than today, the primordial abundances of light elements would be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 James Alvey , Nashwan Sabti , Miguel Escudero , Malcolm Fairbairn

We investigate particle laws of motion derived from nonstandard kinetic actions of a special form. We are guided by a phenomenological scheme--the modified dynamics (MOND)--that imputes the mass discrepancy observed in galactic systems to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Milgrom

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

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

Genzel et al. have recently published the rotation curves of six high-redshift disc galaxies ($z\sim 0.9-2.4$), which they find to be `baryon dominated' within the studies radii. While not up to the standard afforded by data available for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-26 Mordehai Milgrom

The Lambda-CDM cosmological model is succesful at reproducing various independent sets of observations concerning the large-scale Universe. This model is however currently, and actually in principle, unable to predict the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-16 Benoit Famaey , Stacy McGaugh

Purely baryonic dark matter dominated models like MOND based on modification of Newtonian gravity have been successfully in reproducing some dynamical properties of galaxies. More recently, a relativistic formulation of MOND proposed by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anze Slosar , Alessandro Melchiorri , Joseph Silk

In this work, we propose a modified Newton dynamics (MOND) model to study the rotation curves of galaxies. The model is described by an arctangent interpolating function and it fits the rotation curves of several galaxies without invoking…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Ana C. M. Ciqueira , Geanderson A. Carvalho , Paulo H. Faccin , Fabrício T. Dalmolin

We use our Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) cosmological particle-mesh N-body code to investigate the feasibility of structure formation in a framework involving MOND and light sterile neutrinos in the mass range 11 - 300 eV: always…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Garry W. Angus , Antonaldo Diaferio , Benoit Famaey , Kurt J. van der Heyden

To further test MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) on galactic scales -- originally proposed to explain the rotation curves of disk galaxies without dark matter -- we study a sample of six strong gravitational lensing early-type galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ignacio Ferreras , Mairi Sakellariadou , Muhammad Furqaan Yusaf

Milgromian Dynamics (MOND) has been particularly successful in predicting scaling relations for galactic systems, namely the baryonic Tully-Fisher for spirals, the Faber-Jackson for ellipticals and the Radial Acceleration Relation for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nikolaos Samaras

We have recently discovered that the modified dynamics (MOND) implies some universal upper bound on the acceleration that can be contributed by a `dark halo'--assumed in a Newtonian analysis to account for the effects of MOND. Not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Rafael Brada , Mordehai Milgrom

Practically all the full-fledged MOND theories propounded to date are of the modified-gravity (MG) type: they modify only the Newtonian, Poisson action of the gravitational potential, or the general-relativistic Einstein-Hilbert action,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-17 Mordehai Milgrom

Although the existence of dark matter has been widely acknowledged in the cosmology community, it is as yet unknown in nature, despite decades of research, which questions its very existence. This never-ending search for dark matter leads…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Even Coquery , Alain Blanchard

A range of cosmological observations demonstrate an accelerated expansion of the Universe, and the most likely explanation of this phenomenon is a cosmological constant. Given the importance of understanding the underlying physics, it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Karoline Loeve , Kristine Simone Nielsen , Steen H. Hansen

We use a one dimensional hydrodynamical code to study the evolution of spherically symmetric perturbations in the framework of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). The code evolves spherical gaseous shells in an expanding Universe by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Adi Nusser , Etienne Pointecouteau

Milgrom has proposed that the appearance of discrepancies between the Newtonian dynamical mass and the directly observable mass in astronomical systems could be due to a breakdown of Newtonian dynamics in the limit of low accelerations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. H. Sanders

The observed flat rotation curves of galaxies are among a number of astrophysical phenomena which require a larger acceleration than can be provided by the Newtonian gravity of the detected baryons. The main proposed solutions are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-10 Indranil Banik , Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland

The classical gravitational two-body problem is generalized in order to be applicable also to weak gravitational fields. The equation of motion holds both for terrestrial and large cosmic scales, the Newtonian gravitational law represents a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-18 Jozef Klačka

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is an empirically motivated modification of Newtonian gravity or inertia suggested by Milgrom as an alternative to cosmic dark matter. The basic idea is that at accelerations below a0 ~ 10^{-8} cm/s^2 ~…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert H. Sanders , Stacy S. McGaugh