1993/07/02 by Philip D. Mannheim, Mannheim, Philip D.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9307004
UCONN-93-5, 28 pages (plus 2 figures - send requests to [email protected]), in plain TeX
arxiv created 1993/07/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
In the first paper in this series we presented a typical set of galactic rotation curves associated with the conformal invariant fourth order theory of gravity which has recently been advanced by Mannheim and Kazanas as a candidate alternative to the standard second order Einstein theory. Reasonable agreement with data was obtained for four representative galaxies without the need for any non-luminous or dark matter. In this second paper we present the associated formalism. Additionally, we discuss the status of the Tully-Fisher relation in our theory, compare and contrast our theory with the dark matter theory, and make some general observations regarding the systematics of galactic rotation curve data.