Modified Gravity and its test on galaxy clusters

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Publication date 05-2018
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume | Issue number 476 | 3
Pages (from-to) 3393-3398
Number of pages 6
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

The MOdified Gravity (MOG) theory of J. Moffat assumes a massive vector particle which causes a repulsive contribution to the tensor gravitation. For the galaxy cluster A1689 new data for the X-ray gas and the strong lensing properties are presented. Fits to MOG are possible by adjusting the galaxy density profile. However, this appears to work as an effective dark matter component, posing a serious problem forMOG. New gas and strong lensing data for the cluster A1835 support these conclusions and point at a tendency of the gas alone to overestimate the lensing effects in MOG theory.

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Note This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2018 The Author(s) published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty380
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