Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: During the 2016 International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics (IWARA), the question was raised as to whether conformal gravity (CG) could explain the timely result which showed a universal nature found in the centripetal accelerations of spiral galaxies. At the time of the conference, the McGaugh result was only published for 2 weeks. Since then, the result has become known as the radial acceleration relation (RAR) and has been considered tantamount to a natural law. In this paper, we summarize how CG can explain the RAR in a manner consistent with the findings of the original authors without the need for dark matter.
Source: Astronomische Nachrichten
Authors: J. G. O'Brien, T. L. Chiarelli, M. A. Falcone, M. H. AlQurashi
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2907556094