Radial acceleration relation from symmetron fifth forces

We show that the radial acceleration relation for rotationally supported galaxies may be explained, in the absence of cold dark matter, by a nonminimally coupled scalar field, whose fifth forces are partially screened on galactic scales by the symmetron mechanism. In addition, we show that sufficien...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Burrage, Clare, Copeland, Edmund J., Millington, Peter
Format: Article
Published: American Physical Society 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42086/