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arxiv: astro-ph/0006453 · v1 · pith:TJWEHQXSnew · submitted 2000-06-30 · 🌌 astro-ph

An attempt to do without dark matter

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keywords matterdarkfailshypothesisadditionalattemptawaybaryon
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The discrepancy between dynamical mass measures of objects such as galaxies and the observed distribution of luminous matter in the universe is typically explained by invoking an unseen ``dark matter'' component. Dark matter must necessarily be non-baryonic. We introduce a simple hypothesis to do away with the necessity for dark matter by introducing an additional non-gravitational force coupled to baryon number as a charge. We compare this hypothesis to Milgrom's Modified Newtonian Dynamics. The model ultimately fails when confronted with observation, but it fails in an interesting way.

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