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We compare orbits in a thin axisymmetric disc potential in MOND to those in a thin disc plus near-spherical dark matter halo predicted by a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. Remarkably, the amount of orbital precession in MOND is nearly identical to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. I. Read , Ben Moore

Dynamics of spiral galaxies derived from a given surface mass density has been derived earlier in a classic paper. We try to transform the singular elliptic function in the integral into a compact integral with regular elliptic function.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. F. Kao

Nuclear rings, prevalent in barred galaxies, are essential to understanding gas transport toward galactic nuclei. However, the peculiar nuclear ring in our neighboring galaxy M31 remains poorly understood. Here we present a comprehensive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-18 Zongnan Li , Zhao Su , Sumin Wang , Yufan F. Zhou , Zhiyuan Li , Xuanyi Lyu , Fanyi Meng , Kai Zhang , Di Li , Chaowei Tsai , Jingwen Wu , Jiachang Zhang

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

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

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

Many spiral galaxies show a large-scale asymmetry with a cos\phi dependence in their rotation curves as well as in their morphology, such as M101 and NGC 628. We show that both these features can be explained by the response of a galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chanda J. Jog

(Abridged) Dynamical friction can be used to distinguish Newtonian gravity and modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) because it works differently in these frameworks. This concept, however, has yet to be explored very much with MOND. Previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Michal Bílek , Hongsheng Zhao , Benoit Famaey , Oliver Müller , Pavel Kroupa , Rodrigo Ibata

The Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the most nearby giant spiral galaxy, an opportunity to study with high resolution dynamical phenomena occurring in nuclear disks and bulges, able to explain star formation quenching, and galaxy evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-29 Lucie Cros , Françoise Combes , Anne-Laure Melchior , Thomas Martin

We consider disk stability in the quasi-linear formulation of MOND (QUMOND), the basis for some $N$-body integrators. We generalize the Toomre criterion for the stability of disks to tightly wound, axisymmetric perturbations. We apply this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 Indranil Banik , Mordehai Milgrom , Hongsheng Zhao

As ancient stellar systems, globular clusters (GCs) offer valuable insights into the dynamical histories of large galaxies. Previous studies of GC populations in the inner and outer regions of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) have revealed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Yuan Li , Brendon J. Brewer , Geraint F. Lewis , Dougal Mackey

The Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) generically predicts a violation of the strong version of the equivalence principle. As a result the gravitational dynamics of a system depends on the external gravitational field in which the system…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-01 Luc Blanchet , Jerome Novak

The stability of galaxies is either explained by the existence of dark matter or caused by a modification of Newtonian acceleration (MOND). Here we show that the modification of the Newtonian dynamics can equally well be obtained by a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-24 Søren Toxvaerd

We compare N-body simulations performed in MOND with analogs in Newtonian gravity with dark matter (DM). We have developed a code which solves the Poisson equation in both gravity models. It is a grid solver using adaptive mesh refinement…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-11 O. Tiret , F. Combes

We present first results of a program to study the dynamics of undisturbed bulgeless, low surface density disk galaxies in order to probe the underlying structure of dark matter halos. High resolution H-alpha rotation curves are combined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. Dalcanton , R. A. Bernstein

Certain types of globular clusters have the very important property that the predictions for their kinematics in the Newtonian and modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) contexts are divergent. Here, we caution the recent claim that the stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Gianfranco Gentile , Benoit Famaey , Garry W. Angus , Pavel Kroupa

Although the modified dynamics (MOND) proposed by Milgrom successfully accounts for the systematics of galaxy rotation curves and cluster dynamics without invoking dark matter, the idea remains a largely ad hoc modification of Newtonian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 R. H. Sanders

Context. Stellar shells, which form axially symmetric systems of arcs in some elliptical galaxies, are most likely remnants of radial minor mergers. They are observed up a radius of $\sim$100 kpc. The stars in them oscillate in radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Bílek , K. Bartošková , I. Ebrová , B. Jungwiert

We study the evolution of star clusters located in the outer regions of a galaxy undergoing a sudden mass loss through gas expulsion in the framework of Milgromian dynamics (MOND) by means of N-body simulations. We find that, to leave a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Xufen Wu , Pavel Kroupa

We compare six models (including the baryonic model, two dark matter models, two modified Newtonian dynamics models and one modified gravity model) in accounting for the galaxy rotation curves. For the dark matter models, we assume NFW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-10 Xin Li , Li Tang , Hai-Nan Lin