Testing Yukawa cosmology at the Milky Way and M31 galactic scales

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Auteurs principaux: D'Agostino, Rocco, Jusufi, Kimet, Capozziello, Salvatore
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author D'Agostino, Rocco
Jusufi, Kimet
Capozziello, Salvatore
author_facet D'Agostino, Rocco
Jusufi, Kimet
Capozziello, Salvatore
contents We address the galaxy rotation curves through the Yukawa gravitational potential emerging as a correction of the Newtonian potential in extended theories of gravity. On the one hand, we consider the contribution of the galactic bulge, galactic disk, and the dark matter halo of the Navarro-Frenk-White profile, in the framework of the standard $Λ$CDM model. On the other hand, we use modified Yukawa gravity to show that the rotational velocity of galaxies can be addressed successfully without the need for dark matter. In Yukawa gravity, we recover MOND and show that dark matter might be seen as an apparent effect due to the modification of the law of gravitation in terms of two parameters: the coupling constant $α$ and the characteristic length $λ$. We thus test our theoretical scenario using the Milky Way and M31 rotation velocity curves. In particular, we place observational constraints on the free parameters of Yukawa cosmology through the Monte Carlo method and then compare our results with the predictions of the $Λ$CDM paradigm by making use of Bayesian information criteria. Specifically, we find that $λ$ is constrained to be of the order of kpc, while cosmological data suggest $λ$ of the order of Gpc. To explain this discrepancy, we argue that there is a fundamental limitation in measuring $λ$ due to the role of quantum mechanics on cosmological scales.
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spellingShingle Testing Yukawa cosmology at the Milky Way and M31 galactic scales
D'Agostino, Rocco
Jusufi, Kimet
Capozziello, Salvatore
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We address the galaxy rotation curves through the Yukawa gravitational potential emerging as a correction of the Newtonian potential in extended theories of gravity. On the one hand, we consider the contribution of the galactic bulge, galactic disk, and the dark matter halo of the Navarro-Frenk-White profile, in the framework of the standard $Λ$CDM model. On the other hand, we use modified Yukawa gravity to show that the rotational velocity of galaxies can be addressed successfully without the need for dark matter. In Yukawa gravity, we recover MOND and show that dark matter might be seen as an apparent effect due to the modification of the law of gravitation in terms of two parameters: the coupling constant $α$ and the characteristic length $λ$. We thus test our theoretical scenario using the Milky Way and M31 rotation velocity curves. In particular, we place observational constraints on the free parameters of Yukawa cosmology through the Monte Carlo method and then compare our results with the predictions of the $Λ$CDM paradigm by making use of Bayesian information criteria. Specifically, we find that $λ$ is constrained to be of the order of kpc, while cosmological data suggest $λ$ of the order of Gpc. To explain this discrepancy, we argue that there is a fundamental limitation in measuring $λ$ due to the role of quantum mechanics on cosmological scales.
title Testing Yukawa cosmology at the Milky Way and M31 galactic scales
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01846