2006MNRAS.367..527B -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 367, 527-540 (2006/April-1)
Galaxy cluster masses without non-baryonic dark matter.
BROWNSTEIN J.R. and MOFFAT J.W.
Abstract (from CDS):
We apply the modified acceleration law obtained from Einstein gravity coupled to a massive skew symmetric field, Fµνλ, to the problem of explaining X-ray galaxy cluster masses without exotic dark matter. Utilizing X-ray observations to fit the gas mass profile and temperature profile of the hot intracluster medium (ICM) with King `β-models', we show that the dynamical masses of the galaxy clusters resulting from our modified acceleration law fit the cluster gas masses for our sample of 106 clusters without the need of introducing a non-baryonic dark matter component. We are further able to show for our sample of 106 clusters that the distribution of gas in the ICM as a function of radial distance is well fitted by the dynamical mass distribution arising from our modified acceleration law without any additional dark matter component. In a previous work, we applied this theory to galaxy rotation curves and demonstrated good fits to our sample of 101 low surface brightness, high surface brightness and dwarf galaxies including 58 galaxies that were fitted photometrically with the single-parameter mass-to-light ratio (M/L)stars. The results obtained there were qualitatively similar to those obtained using Milgrom's phenomenological Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) model, although the determined galaxy masses were quantitatively different, and MOND does not show a return to Keplerian behaviour at extragalactic distances. The results obtained here are compared to those obtained using Milgrom's phenomenological MOND model which does not fit the X-ray galaxy cluster masses unless an auxiliary dark matter component is included.
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2006 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2006 RAS
Journal keyword(s):
gravitation - galaxies: clusters: general - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - dark matter - X-rays: galaxies: clusters
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