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As galactic halos are not directly visible, there are many ambiguities regarding their composition and rotational velocity. Though most of the dark matter is non-baryonic, {\it some fraction is}, and it can be used to trace the halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-10 Noraiz Tahir , Francesco De Paolis , Asghar Qadir , Achille A. Nucita

The measured rotation velocity profiles of mature spiral galaxies are successfully described with a gravitational model consisting of a thin axisymmetric disk of finte radius. The disk is assumed uniformly thin but with variable radial mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-06 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

Typically, stars in galaxies have higher velocities than predicted by Newtonian gravity in conjunction with observable galactic matter. To account for the phenomenon, some researchers modified Newtonian gravitation; others introduced dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-06 Nadja S. Magalhaes , Fred I. Cooperstock

The rotation dynamics of spiral galaxies is modeled using a sum of two mass distributions: a spherical bulge and a thin disk. The density functions representing these mass distributions are calculated from the total angular momentum of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-09 Louis Marmet

{Comparison of mass density profiles of galaxies of varying sizes based on some gravity theories from observed galaxy rotation curves and assessing the need for dark matter.} We present an analysis of the rotation curves of five galaxies of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-23 Rahul Datta , Dilip G. Banhatti

Higher order curvature gravity has recently received a lot of attention due to the fact that it gives rise to cosmological models which seem capable of solving dark energy and quintessence issues without using "ad hoc" scalar fields. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Capozziello , V. F. Cardone , S. Carloni , A. Troisi

The nonsymmetric gravitational theory predicts an acceleration law that modifies the Newtonian law of attraction between particles. For weak fields a fit to the flat rotation curves of galaxies is obtained in terms of the mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

We construct a Galacto-Local Group rotation curve, combining the Galactic rotation curve with a diagram, where galacto-centric radial velocities of outer globular clusters and member galaxies of the Local Group are plotted against their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yoshiaki Sofue

Observations reveal that mature spiral galaxies consist of stars, gases and plasma approximately distributed in a thin disk of circular shape, usually with a central bulge. The rotation velocities quickly increase from the galactic center…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-22 C. F. Gallo , James Q. Feng

The thickness of the neutral hydrogen layer, coupled with the rotation curve, traces the outer dark matter potential. We estimate the amplitude of the flaring in spiral galaxies from a 3D model of the HI gas. Warps in particular are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -F. Becquaert , F. Combes

A mysterious dark matter is supposed to exist in the galactic halos. In this contrast, we discuss the possibility of explaining the flat rotational velocity curves in f(R) gravity by solving field equations numerically in vacuum and for…

General Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Muhammad Usman

A recent analysis of data from the ESA Gaia mission demonstrated that the kinematics of stars in the Milky Way can be modelled without invoking the presence of dark matter whatsoever. Indeed, the higher-than-Keplerian velocities observed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-12 Davide Astesiano , Sergio L. Cacciatori , Massimo Dotti , Francesco Haardt , Federico Re

We consider simple hydrodynamical models of galactic dark matter in which the galactic halo is a self-gravitating and self-interacting gas that dominates the dynamics of the galaxy. Modeling this halo as a sphericaly symmetric and static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Luis G. Cabral-Rosetti , Tonatiuh Matos , Dario Nuñez , Roberto A. Sussman

In the present work we derive an analytical expression for the mass density of an object with spherical symmetry, whose corresponding potential allows obtaining a circular velocity around it that is in agreement with the observed rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-09 José Enrique Hernández Ramírez

Using standard Einstein theory, baryonic mass cannot account for observed galactic rotation velocities and gravitational lensing, attributed to galactic dark matter halos. In contrast, theory constrained by Weyl conformal scaling symmetry…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 R. K. Nesbet

The general relativistic model of Cooperstock & Tieu, which attempts to fit rotation curves of spiral galaxies without invoking dark matter, is tested empirically using observations of the Milky Way. In particular, predictions for the mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Burkhard Fuchs , Stefanie Phleps

In this paper we identify a new regularity in the systematics of galactic rotation curves, namely we find that at the last detected points in galaxies of widely varying luminosity, the centripetal acceleration is found to have the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Philip D. Mannheim

We describe a non-parametric method for determining both the anisotropy and mass profiles of elliptical galaxies from velocity dispersions and velocity profile shapes along the line of sight. In this way, mass-to-light ratios out to 2-3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andi Kronawitter , Ortwin E. Gerhard , R. P. Saglia , Ralf Bender

It has been proposed that the flat rotation curves observed at large radii in disk galaxies can be interpreted as an effect of General Relativity (GR) instead of the presence of dark matter (DM) halos in Newtonian gravity. In Ciotti (2022)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 Luca Ciotti

It has been suggested that the observed flat rotation curves of disk galaxies can be a peculiar effect of General Relativity (GR) rather than evidence for the presence of dark matter (DM) halos in Newtonian gravity. In Ciotti (2022) the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-14 Luca Ciotti