Dissipationless collapses in MOND

Details Dissipationless collapses in MOND Dissipationless collapses in MOND

2007-01-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701418v1

Astrophys.J.660:256-266,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/512771

Dissipationless collapses in Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) are studied by using a new particle-mesh N-body code based on our numerical MOND potential solver. We found that low surface-density end-products have shallower inner density profile, flatter radial velocity-dispersion profile, and more radially anisotropic orbital distribution than high surface-density end-products. The projected density profiles of the final virialized systems are well described by Sersic profiles with index m~4, down to m~2 for a deep-MOND collapse. Consistently with observations of elliptical galaxies, the MOND end-products, if interpreted in the context of Newtonian gravity, would appear to have little or no dark matter within the effective radius. However, we found impossible (under the assumption of constant mass-to-light ratio) to simultaneously place the resulting systems on the observed Kormendy, Faber-Jackson and Fundamental Plane relations of elliptical galaxies. Finally, the simulations provide strong evidence that phase mixing is less effective in MOND than in Newtonian gravity.

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