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How Dark Energy Affects the MOND Theory in Clusters
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Journal of Modern Physics·Volume 03 (2012)·Pages 1128–1130·Published 28 September 2012·DOI10.4236/jmp.2012.329147
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Abstract
Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is one of the successful theories to explain the dark matter problem in galaxies. However, the data from clusters and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) indicate some dark matter should exist in larger scales. In addition, recent dynamical studies of clusters show that the effect of dark energy should not be ignored in cluster scale. In this article, I will demonstrate how dark energy affects the cluster mass calculation by using MOND. Also, I will show that the calculated cluster mass is consistent with the total matter to baryonic matter ratio obtained by the CMB data.
KeywordsGravitation-GalaxiesClustersGeneral-Dark Matter
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