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Large and well defined variations exist between the distribution of mass and the light of stars on extragalactic scales. Mass concentrations in the range 10^12 - 10^13 M_sun manifest the most light per unit mass. Group halos in this range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 R. Brent Tully

The observed mass-to-light (M/L) ratios of globular clusters (GCs) are on average ~20% lower than expected from Simple Stellar Population (SSP) models, which only account for the effects of stellar evolution. We study the M/L ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-10-27 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Steffen Mieske

Although very successful in explaining the observed conspiracy between the baryonic distribution and the gravitational field in spiral galaxies without resorting to dark matter (DM), the modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) paradigm still…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Garry W. Angus , Benoit Famaey , David A. Buote

The majority of observed mass-to-light ratios of globular clusters are too low to be explained by `canonical' cluster models, in which dynamical effects are not accounted for. Moreover, these models do not reproduce a recently reported…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

We study weak gravitational lensing of galaxy clusters in terms of the MOND (MOdified Newtonian Dynamics) theory. We calculate shears and convergences of background galaxies for three clusters (A1689, CL0024+1654, CL1358+6245) and the mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ryuichi Takahashi , Takeshi Chiba

This chapter presents Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), the proposal that, below a certain acceleration scale $a_0$, dynamics departs from the Newtonian expectation. In that context, the determining factor for the emergence of apparent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-29 Benoit Famaey , Amel Durakovic

We show that the observed mass-to-light ratio of galaxy clusters increases with cluster temperature as expected from cosmological simulations. Contrary to previous observational suggestions, we find a mild but robust increase of M/L from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 Neta A. Bahcall , Julia M. Comerford

We consider for the first time the implications on the modified gravity MOND model of galaxies, of the presence of dark baryons, under the form of cold molecular gas in galaxy discs. We show that MOND models of rotation curves are still…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Tiret , F. Combes

We study the mass distribution of galaxy clusters in Milgromian dynamics, or modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). We focus on five galaxy clusters from the X-COP sample, for which high-quality data are available on both the baryonic mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 Ruth Kelleher , Federico Lelli

I consider in light of MOND the three debris galaxies discussed recently by Bournaud et al.. These exhibit mass discrepancies of a factor of a few within several scale lengths of the visible galaxy, which, arguably, flies in the face of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mordehai 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

Context. Deur (2014) and Winters et al. (2023) proposed an empirical relation between the dark to total mass ratio and ellipticity in elliptical galaxies from their observed total dynamical mass-to-light ratio data M/L = (14.1 +/-…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-07 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio

We present interpretations of the line-of-sight velocity distribution of stars in the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy in terms of CDM and MOND assuming constant mass-to-light ratio and anisotropy. We estimate the two parameters by fitting the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ewa L. Lokas , Gary A. Mamon , Francisco Prada

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is a paradigm that can do away with dark matter at galaxy scales, but displays a residual missing mass discrepancy in galaxy clusters. Prompted by the updated JWST-based gravitational lens model of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Benoit Famaey

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

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

Lo, Sargent, and Young (1993) have recently concluded that the masses of some dwarf galaxies, as deduced by the modified dynamics (MOND) from the observed velocity dispersions, are systematically smaller than the observed masses, by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Milgrom

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is one of the most popular alternative theories of dark matter to explain the missing mass problem in galaxies. Although it remains controversial regarding MOND as a fundamental theory, MOND phenomenology…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-25 Man Ho Chan , Ka Chung Law

Modified Newtonian dynamics (Mond) has had considerable success in describing motions in galaxies. It uses a single force which falls off inversely with the distance at large distances and inversely with the square of the distance at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Peter Rastall

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