Rings and shells of "dark matter" as MOND artifacts

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2007-09-17

arxiv.org/abs/0709.2561v2

Astrophys. J. 678, 131 (2008)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

29 pages, 9 figures, Astrophysical J., in press; changed to match published version; added a discussion of the rotation curve

Scientific paper

10.1086/529119

MOND predicts that a mass, M, contained within its transition radius r_t=(MG/a0)^{1/2}, may exhibit a feature at about that radius in the form of a shell, or projected ring, in the deduced distribution of its phantom dark matter. This occurs despite the absence of any underlying feature in the true (``baryon'') source distribution itself. The phenomenon is similar to the appearance of an event horizon and other unusual physics ``in the middle of nothing'' near the transition radius of General Relativity $MG/c^2$. We consider the possibility that this pure MOND phenomenon is in the basis of the recent finding of such a ring in the galaxy cluster Cl 0024+17 by Jee et al. We find that the parameters of the observed ring can be naturally explained in this way; this feature may therefore turn out to be a direct evidence for MOND. We study this phenomenon in simple, axisymmetric configurations aligned with the line of sight: spherical masses, a dumbbell of spherical masses, and an elongated, thin structure. The properties of the apparent ring: its radius, surface density, and contrast, depend on the form of the MOND interpolating function and on the exact three dimensional distribution of the sources (the thin-lens approximation is quite invalid in MOND). We also comment on the possible appearance of orphan features, marking the Newtonian-to-MOND transition, in high surface brightness galaxies. In particular, we find that previously unexplained structure in the rotation curves of some galaxies may be evidence for such features.

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