Papers
Topics
Authors
Recent
2000 character limit reached

Phenomenology of renormalization group improved gravity from the kinematics of SPARC galaxies (2403.00531v2)

Published 1 Mar 2024 in gr-qc and astro-ph.GA

Abstract: Renormalization Group correction to General Relativity (RGGR) proposes a logarithmic running of the gravitational coupling $\left(G\right)$, resulting in a modified description of gravity. This has the potential to explain the observed kinematics of the galaxies, including the missing-mass problem. We, for the first time, based on the galaxy morphological types, investigate the dynamics of a diverse collection of galaxies present in the Spitzer Photometry for Accurate Rotation Curve (SPARC) catalog. We phenomenologically constrain the RGGR model parameter $\left(\bar\nu\right)$ along with the mass-to-light ratio for a sample of 100 SPARC galaxies, selected from four different morphological types, viz. early, spiral, late, and starburst. Our statistical analysis finds RGGR to fit the observed galaxy kinematics consistently. The constrained RGGR model parameter also supports the claim that it has a near-linear dependence on the galactic baryonic mass. From our morphology study, we find that the parameter $\bar\nu$ decreases from the early-type to the starburst galaxies. Finally, the renormalization group improved gravity is tested against the two established empirical relations for the SPARC catalog, viz., the Radial Acceleration Relation (RAR) and the Baryonic Tully Fisher relation (BTFR), both are found to be satisfied consistently.

Definition Search Book Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com
References (49)
  1. “Modified Gravity and Cosmology” In Phys. Rept. 513, 2012, pp. 1–189 DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2012.01.001
  2. Shin’ichi Nojiri and Sergei D. Odintsov “Introduction to modified gravity and gravitational alternative for dark energy” In eConf C0602061, 2006, pp. 06 DOI: 10.1142/S0219887807001928
  3. F. Zwicky “On the Masses of Nebulae and of Clusters of Nebulae” In Astrophys. J. 86, 1937, pp. 217–246 DOI: 10.1086/143864
  4. Vera C. Rubin, W.Kent Ford and Norbert Thonnard “Extended rotation curves of high-luminosity spiral galaxies. IV. Systematic dynamical properties, Sa through Sc” In Astrophys. J. Lett. 225, 1978, pp. L107–L111 DOI: 10.1086/182804
  5. V.C. Rubin, N. Thonnard and W.K. Ford “Rotational properties of 21 SC galaxies with a large range of luminosities and radii, from NGC 4605 /R = 4kpc/ to UGC 2885 /R = 122 kpc/” In Astrophys. J. 238, 1980, pp. 471 DOI: 10.1086/158003
  6. S. Nojiri, S.D. Odintsov and V.K. Oikonomou “Modified Gravity Theories on a Nutshell: Inflation, Bounce and Late-time Evolution” In Phys. Rept. 692, 2017, pp. 1–104 DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2017.06.001
  7. “Challenges for ΛΛ\Lambdaroman_ΛCDM: An update” In New Astron. Rev. 95, 2022, pp. 101659 DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2022.101659
  8. Anne M. Green “Dark matter in astrophysics/cosmology” In SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 37, 2022, pp. 1 DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhysLectNotes.37
  9. Mariia Khelashvili, Anton Rudakovskyi and Sabine Hossenfelder “Dark matter profiles of SPARC galaxies: a challenge to fuzzy dark matter” In Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 523.3, 2023, pp. 3393–3405 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1595
  10. WJG De Blok “The core-cusp problem” In Advances in Astronomy 2010 Hindawi, 2010
  11. H.E.S. Velten, R.F. Marttens and W. Zimdahl “Aspects of the cosmological “coincidence problem”” In Eur. Phys. J. C 74.11, 2014, pp. 3160 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3160-4
  12. “Where are the missing Galactic satellites?” In Astrophys. J. 522, 1999, pp. 82–92 DOI: 10.1086/307643
  13. G Kauffmann, Simon D.M. White and B. Guiderdoni “The Formation and Evolution of Galaxies Within Merging Dark Matter Haloes” In Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 264, 1993, pp. 201
  14. Steven Weinberg “The Cosmological Constant Problem” In Rev. Mod. Phys. 61, 1989, pp. 1–23 DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.61.1
  15. Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Paul J. Steinhardt “New light on dark matter” In Science 300, 2003, pp. 1909–1913 DOI: 10.1126/science.1085976
  16. B. Moore “Evidence against dissipationless dark matter from observations of galaxy haloes” In Nature 370, 1994, pp. 629 DOI: 10.1038/370629a0
  17. Shinji Tsujikawa “Modified gravity models of dark energy” In Lect. Notes Phys. 800, 2010, pp. 99–145 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10598-2_3
  18. Antonio De Felice, Mark Hindmarsh and Mark Trodden “Ghosts, Instabilities, and Superluminal Propagation in Modified Gravity Models” In JCAP 08, 2006, pp. 005 DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2006/08/005
  19. B.P. Abbott “Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run” [Erratum: Phys.Rev.X 8, 039903 (2018)] In Phys. Rev. X 6.4, 2016, pp. 041015 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041015
  20. “Gravitational-Wave Tests of General Relativity with Ground-Based Detectors and Pulsar Timing-Arrays” In Living Rev. Rel. 16, 2013, pp. 9 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2013-9
  21. “Quantum gravity at astrophysical distances?” In JCAP 12, 2004, pp. 001 DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2004/12/001
  22. Ilya L. Shapiro, Joan Sola and Hrvoje Stefancic “Running G and Lambda at low energies from physics at M(X): Possible cosmological and astrophysical implications” In JCAP 01, 2005, pp. 012 DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2005/01/012
  23. “Dynamics of the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector in the quantum-corrected Newton gravity” In Phys. Rev. D 83, 2011, pp. 124037 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.124037
  24. Davi C. Rodrigues, Patricio S. Letelier and Ilya L. Shapiro “Galaxy rotation curves from General Relativity with Renormalization Group corrections” In JCAP 04, 2010, pp. 020 DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/020
  25. Davi C. Rodrigues “Elliptical galaxies kinematics within general relativity with renormalization group effects” In JCAP 09, 2012, pp. 031 DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/09/031
  26. “Disk and elliptical galaxies within renormalization group improved gravity” In AIP Conf. Proc. 1471, 2012, pp. 98–102 DOI: 10.1063/1.4756820
  27. “Quantum corrections to gravity and their implications for cosmology and astrophysics” In Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 27, 2012, pp. 1260006 DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X12600068
  28. Ilya L. Shapiro and Joan Sola “Scaling behavior of the cosmological constant: Interface between quantum field theory and cosmology” In JHEP 02, 2002, pp. 006 DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/02/006
  29. “Modified gravity models and the central cusp of dark matter haloes in galaxies” In Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 445.4, 2014, pp. 3823–3838 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2017
  30. “Renormalization group scale-setting in astrophysical systems” In Phys. Lett. B 703, 2011, pp. 1–6 DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.07.038
  31. “Variable cosmological constant as a Planck scale effect” In Phys. Lett. B 574, 2003, pp. 149–155 DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2003.09.016
  32. Paulo L.C. Oliveira, J.A.Freitas Pacheco and Gilbert Reinisch “Testing two alternative theories to dark matter with the Milky Way dynamics” In General Relativity and Gravitation 47, 2015, pp. 1–16 URL: https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:118410530
  33. Federico Lelli, Stacy S. McGaugh and James M. Schombert “SPARC: Mass Models for 175 Disk Galaxies with Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves” In Astron. J. 152, 2016, pp. 157 DOI: 10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/157
  34. “Reconciling the Diversity and Uniformity of Galactic Rotation Curves with Self-Interacting Dark Matter” In Phys. Rev. X 9.3, 2019, pp. 031020 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031020
  35. “Constraints on Chameleon f(R)-Gravity from Galaxy Rotation Curves of the SPARC Sample” In Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 489.1, 2019, pp. 771–787 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2131
  36. Álefe O.F. Almeida, Luca Amendola and Viviana Niro “Galaxy rotation curves in modified gravity models” In JCAP 08, 2018, pp. 012 DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/08/012
  37. “Modified Gravity (MOG) fits to observed radial acceleration of SPARC galaxies” In Phys. Dark Univ. 25, 2019, pp. 100323 DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2019.100323
  38. “emcee: the MCMC hammer” In Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 125.925 IOP Publishing, 2013, pp. 306
  39. Stacy S McGaugh, Federico Lelli and James M Schombert “Radial acceleration relation in rotationally supported galaxies” In Physical Review Letters 117.20 APS, 2016, pp. 201101
  40. “A New method of determining distances to galaxies” In Astron. Astrophys. 54, 1977, pp. 661–673
  41. “The baryonic Tully–Fisher relation for different velocity definitions and implications for galaxy angular momentum” In Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 484.3, 2019, pp. 3267–3278 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz205
  42. K.C. Freeman “On the disks of spiral and SO Galaxies” In Astrophys. J. 160, 1970, pp. 811 DOI: 10.1086/150474
  43. Lars Hernquist “An Analytical Model for Spherical Galaxies and Bulges” In The Astrophysical Journal 356, 1990, pp. 359–364 URL: https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:122140408
  44. Esha Bhatia, Sayan Chakrabarti and Sovan Chakraborty “Velocity dispersion of dark-matter deficient ultradiffuse galaxies: A case for modified gravity” In Phys. Rev. D 108.6, 2023, pp. 064021 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.064021
  45. “Galactic Astronomy: Structure and Kinematics” W.H. Freeman, 1981 URL: https://books.google.co.in/books?id=aT2fQgAACAAJ
  46. Stacy S. McGaugh “The Baryonic Tully-Fisher relation of galaxies with extended rotation curves and the stellar mass of rotating galaxies” In Astrophys. J. 632, 2005, pp. 859–871 DOI: 10.1086/432968
  47. “Stellar populations and the star formation histories of LSB galaxies: III. Stellar population models” In Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 31 Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. e036
  48. Sharon E. Meidt “Reconstructing the stellar mass distributions of galaxies using S44{}^{4}start_FLOATSUPERSCRIPT 4 end_FLOATSUPERSCRIPTG IRAC 3.6 and 4.5 μ𝜇\muitalic_μm images: II. The conversion from light to mass” In Astrophys. J. 788, 2014, pp. 144 DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/788/2/144
  49. Aaron J Romanowsky and S Michael Fall “Angular momentum and galaxy formation revisited” In The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 203.2 IOP Publishing, 2012, pp. 17

Summary

We haven't generated a summary for this paper yet.

Ai Sparkles Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com Summarize Now

Whiteboard

Open Problems

We haven't generated a list of open problems mentioned in this paper yet.

Ai Sparkles Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com Generate Now

Continue Learning

We haven't generated follow-up questions for this paper yet.

Ai Sparkles Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com Generate Now

Collections

Sign up for free to add this paper to one or more collections.

User Circle Single Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com Sign Up

Tweets

Sign up for free to view the 3 tweets with 2 likes about this paper.

User Circle Single Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com Sign Up for Free