Squeezing MOND into a Cosmological Scenario

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2003-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310005v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.92:131102,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages revtex, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.131102

Explaining the effects of dark matter using modified gravitational dynamics (MOND) has for decades been both an intriguing and controversial possibility. By insisting that the gravitational interaction that accounts for the Newtonian force also drives cosmic expansion, one may kinematically identify which cosmologies are compatible with MOND, without explicit reference to the underlying theory so long as the theory obeys Birkhoff's law. Using this technique, we are able to self-consistently compute a number of quantities of cosmological interest. We find that the critical acceleration a_0 must have a slight source-mass dependence (a_0 ~ M^(1/3)) and that MOND cosmologies are naturally compatible with observed late-time expansion history and the contemporary cosmic acceleration. However, cosmologies that can produce enough density perturbations to account for structure formation are contrived and fine-tuned. Even then, they may be marginally ruled out by evidence of early (z \~ 20) reionization.

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