Dark energy and extending the geodesic equations of motion: a spectrum of galactic rotation curves

DOI10.1007/S10714-022-02949-WzbMATH Open1500.83017arXiv2207.08688OpenAlexW4286261457MaRDI QIDQ2159339FDOQ2159339

Authors: Achilles D. Speliotopoulos 

Publication date: 29 July 2022

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A recently proposed extension of the geodesic equations of motion, where the worldline traced by a test particle now depends on the scalar curvature, is used to study the formation of galaxies and galactic rotation curves. This extension is applied to the motion of a fluid in a spherical geometry, resulting in a set of evolution equations for the fluid in the nonrelativistic and weak gravity limits. Focusing on the stationary solutions of these equations and choosing a specific class of angular momenta for the fluid in this limit, we show that dynamics under this extension can result in the formation of galaxies with rotational velocity curves (RVC) that are consistent with the Universal Rotation Curve (URC), and through previous work on the URC, the observed rotational velocity profiles of 1100 spiral galaxies. In particular, a spectrum of RVCs can form under this extension, and we find that the two extreme velocity curves predicted by it brackets the ensemble of the URCs constructed from these 1100 velocity profiles. We also find that the asymptotic behavior of the URC is consistent with that of the most probable asymptotic behavior of the RVCs predicted by the extension. A stability analysis of these stationary solutions is also done, and we find them to be stable in the galactic disk, while in the galactic hub they are stable if the period of oscillations of perturbations is longer than $0.91_{pm0.31}$ to $1.58_{pm0.46}$ billion years.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08688

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zbMATH Keywords

dark energyuniversal rotation curveextensions of the geodesic equations of motiongalatic rotation curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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