General Relativity Resolves Galactic Rotation Without Exotic Dark Matter

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2005-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507619v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, 23 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables

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A galaxy is modeled as a stationary axially symmetric pressure-free fluid in general relativity. For the weak gravitational fields under consideration, the field equations and the equations of motion ultimately lead to one linear and one nonlinear equation relating the angular velocity to the fluid density. It is shown that the rotation curves for the Milky Way, NGC 3031, NGC 3198 and NGC 7331 are consistent with the mass density distributions of the visible matter concentrated in flattened disks. Thus the need for a massive halo of exotic dark matter is removed. For these galaxies we determine the mass density for the luminous threshold as 10^{-21.75} kg.m$^{-3}.

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