Statistical analysis of the gravitational anomaly in \it Gaia wide binaries

2023/09/20 by Hernandez, X., Verteletskyi, V., Nasser, L. +1 · 2 citations
#Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2309.10995

Abstract

The exploration of the low acceleration a0.01pc region however, we obtain γ=1.5 ± 0.2, inconsistent with the Newtonian value of γ=1 at a 2.6 σ level, and much more indicative of MOND AQUAL predictions of close to γ=1.4.

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