The Weak Lensing Mass of Cosmic Web Filaments and Modified Gravity (MOG)

2017/05/08 by J. W. Moffat, Moffat, J. W. · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Gravitational lens #Gravitational lensing formalism #Physics #Redshift #Weak gravitational lensing #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.GA #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1705.03106

published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 5 pages, no figures

arxiv created 2017/05/08 · openalex publication_date 2017/05/08 · arxiv updated 2017/05/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The weak lensing of cosmic web filaments is investigated in modified gravity (MOG) and it is demonstrated that the detected galaxies and baryonic gas of order 5-15 % in filaments can with the enhanced value of the strength of gravity agree with the lensing data for filaments without dark matter.

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