Can higher order curvature theories explain rotation curves of galaxies?

Details Can higher order curvature theories explain rotation curves of galaxies? Can higher order curvature theories explain rotation curves of galaxies?

2004-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0404114v1

Phys.Lett. A326 (2004) 292-296

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

8 pages, to appear in Phys. Lett. A

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physleta.2004.04.081

Higher order curvature gravity has recently received a lot of attention due to the fact that it gives rise to cosmological models which seem capable of solving dark energy and quintessence issues without using "ad hoc" scalar fields. In this letter, a gravitational potential is obtained which differs from the Newtonian one because of a repulsive correction increasing with distance. We evaluate the rotation curve of our Galaxy and compare it with the observed data in order both to test the viability of these theories and to estimate the scalelength of the correction. It is remarkable that the Milky Way rotation curve is well fitted without the need of any dark matter halo and a similar result tentatively holds also for other galaxies.

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