Testing emergent gravity with isolated dwarf galaxies

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/12/012MaRDI QIDQ5027073zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kris Pardo

Publication date 3 February 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00785

zbMATH Keywords

dark matter theorydwarfs galaxiesmodified gravityrotation curves of galaxies

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Orbital mechanics (70M20) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

Abstract: Verlinde (2016) has proposed a new modified theory of gravity, Emergent Gravity (EG), as an alternative to dark matter. EG reproduces the Tully-Fisher relationship with no free parameters and agrees with the velocity curves of most massive, spiral galaxies well. In its current form, the theory only applies to isolated, spherically symmetric systems in a dark energy-dominated Universe, and thus can only be tested fairly with such systems. This paper presents a framework for rotation curve tests of EG using isolated dwarf galaxies. Here I extend the EG equations to axisymmetric distributions for the first time. I also perform a preliminary test of the predictions from EG versus the maximum velocity measurements of 452 isolated dwarf galaxies. I find that EG predicts the maximum velocities of these systems somewhat well for galaxies with measured velocities around $100mkm/s$. EG severely underpredicts the maximum velocities for dwarf galaxies with measured velocities greater than this value and overpredicts for those with measured velocities less than this value. Rotation curves of these isolated dwarf galaxies would provide the definitive test of EG.

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