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Galactic scale tests have proven to be powerful tools in constraining fundamental physics in previously under-explored regions of parameter space. The astrophysical regime which they probe is inherently complicated, and the inference…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-03 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira

We report the discovery of post-starburst ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs), identified through spectroscopic analysis with KCWI at the Keck II Telescope. Our analysis is based on a sample of 44 candidate UDGs selected from the Systematically…

To better understand the formation of large, low surface brightness galaxies, we measure the correlation function between ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates and Milky Way analogs (MWAs). We find that (1) the projected radial distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-03 Hina Goto , Dennis Zaritsky , Ananthan Karunakaran , Richard Donnerstein , David J. Sand

We show that measuring the velocity components of hypervelocity stars (HVSs) can discriminate between modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) and Newtonian gravity. HVSs are ejected from the Galactic center on radial trajectories with a null…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-10 Sankha Subhra Chakrabarty , Luisa Ostorero , Arianna Gallo , Stefano Ebagezio , Antonaldo Diaferio

Ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) reveal extreme properties. Here we compile the largest study to date of 85 globular cluster (GC) systems around UDGs in the Coma cluster, using new deep ground-based imaging of the known UDGs and existing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Duncan A. Forbes , Adebusola Alabi , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Jean P. Brodie , Nobuo Arimoto

Using the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (WALLABY) we performed an untargeted search for H I-bearing ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs). We identified a core sample of 10 UDGs defined by $\mu_{g,0}\ge24$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$ and…

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

A central question regarding Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) is whether they are a separate category to Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies, or just their natural continuation towards low stellar masses. In this letter, we show that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Chris B. Brook , Arianna Di Cintio , Andrea V. Maccio , Marvin Blank

We investigate the on-average properties for 28 star-forming ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) located in low-density environments, by stacking their spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These relatively-isolated UDGs, with stellar masses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Yu Rong , Kai Zhu , Evelyn J. Johnston , Hong-Xin Zhang , Tianwen Cao , Thomas H. Puzia , Gaspar Galaz

The dynamical stability of disk galaxies is sensitive to whether their anomalous rotation curves are caused by dark matter halos or Milgromian Dynamics (MOND). We investigate this by setting up a MOND model of M33. We first simulate it in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-08 Indranil Banik , Ingo Thies , Graeme Candlish , Benoit Famaey , Rodrigo Ibata , Pavel Kroupa

We present new HI interferometric observations of the gas-rich ultra-diffuse galaxy AGC 114905, which previous work, based on low-resolution data, identified as an outlier of the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation. The new observations, at a…

The FIGGS (Faint Irregular Galaxy GMRT Survey) is aimed at creating a multi-wavelength observational data base for a volume limited sample of the faintest gas rich galaxies. In this paper we discuss two very gas rich galaxies that were…

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 use the IllustrisTNG300-ODM simulation to investigate the spin bias of low-mass halos and its connection to the strong clustering of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) reported by Zhang et al. (2025). By comparing two halo spin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-14 Qinglin Ma , Cheng Li , Yangyao Chen , Houjun Mo

Advances in instrumentation have recently extended detailed measurements of gas kinematics to large samples of high-redshift galaxies. Relative to most nearby, thin disk galaxies, in which gas rotation accurately traces the gravitational…

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are unusual galaxies with low luminosities, similar to classical dwarf galaxies, but sizes up to $\sim\!5$ larger than expected for their mass. Some UDGs have large populations of globular clusters (GCs),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Sungsoon Lim , Eric W. Peng , Patrick Cote , Laura V. Sales , Mark den Brok , John P. Blakeslee , Puragra Guhathakurta

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) exhibit low surface brightness, but their optical extent is comparable to Milky Way-type galaxies. Due to their peculiar properties, it remains ambiguous whether UDGs are the descendants of massive galaxies or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-12 Orsolya E. Kovacs , Akos Bogdan , Rebecca E. A. Canning

Massive, galaxy-scale outflows are known to be ubiquitous in major mergers of disk galaxies in the local universe. In this paper, we explore the multiphase structure and power sources of galactic winds in six ultraluminous infrared galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 David S. N. Rupke , Sylvain Veilleux

Galaxies are generally found to follow a relation between their size and luminosity, such that luminous galaxies typically have large sizes. The recent identification of a significant population of galaxies with large sizes but low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Shany Danieli , Pieter van Dokkum

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are the lowest-surface brightness galaxies known, with typical stellar masses of dwarf galaxies but sizes similar to larger galaxies like the Milky Way. The reason for their extended sizes is debated, with…