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MOND下银盘中HI的厚度:理论和对银河系的应用

The thickness of HI in galactic discs under MOND: theory and application to the Galaxy

F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo, K. Saha, C. A. Narayan

摘要:

星系的外围是一个非常好的实验室,可以用来测试低加速度下引力场的性质。通过假设中性氢气在宿主星系的引力势中处于流体静力平衡,观测到的气体层的耀斑可以用来测试修正的引力。我们第一次构造了一个简单的框架来推导MOND方案中中性氢气盘的标度高度,并将其应用于银河系。结果表明,使用一个恒定的气体速度色散的~9公里/秒,MOND是能够给一个非常好的拟合所观察到的HI耀斑超过银河系中心的距离为17千秒差距的最后一个测量点(~40千秒差距)。然而,在10和16千秒差距之间,观测到的尺度高度比MOND预测的标准插值函数高出约40%,比Famaey和Binney建议的形式高出约70%。考虑到宇宙射线和磁场支持的非热压力的不确定性,MOND似乎是解释银河系耀斑的暗物质的一个合理的替代方案。研究外边缘星系中扩展HI盘的耀斑可能是评估MOND可行性的一种有前途的方法。

英文摘要:

The outskirts of galaxies are a very good laboratory for testing the nature of the gravitational field at low accelerations. By assuming that the neutral hydrogen gas is in hydrostatic equilibrium in the gravitational potential of the host galaxy, the observed flaring of the gas layer can be used to test modified gravities. For the first time we construct a simple framework to derive the scaleheight of the neutral hydrogen gas disc in the MOND scenario and apply this to the Milky Way. It is shown that using a constant gas velocity dispersion of ~9 km/s, MOND is able to give a very good fit to the observed HI flaring beyond a galactocentric distance of 17 kpc up to the last measured point (~40 kpc). Between 10 and 16 kpc, however, the observed scaleheight is about 40% more than what MOND predicts for the standard interpolating function and 70% for the form suggested by Famaey & Binney. Given the uncertainties in the non-thermal pressure support by cosmic rays and magnetic fields, MOND seems to be a plausible alternative to dark matter in explaining the Milky Way flaring. Studying the flaring of extended HI discs in external edge-on galaxies may be a promising approach to assess the viability of MOND.

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