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Dark Matter in Astroparticle and Particle Physics

DOI: 10.1142/9789812814357_0039

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The wedding of modified dynamics and non-exotic dark matter in galaxy clusters

Journal article published in 2007 by B. Famaey, G. W. Angus, G. Gentile, H. Y. Shan ORCID, H. S. Zhao
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Abstract

We summarize the status of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) in galaxy clusters. The observed acceleration is typically larger than the acceleration threshold of MOND in the central regions, implying that some dark matter is necessary to explain the mass discrepancy there. A plausible resolution of this issue is that the unseen mass in MOND is in the form of ordinary neutrinos with masses just below the experimentally detectable limit. In particular, we show that the lensing mass reconstructions of the clusters 1E0657-56 (the bullet cluster) and Cl0024+17 (the ring) do not pose a new challenge to this scenario. However, the mass discrepancy for cool X-ray emitting groups, in which neutrinos cannot cluster, pose a more serious problem, meaning that dark baryons could present a more satisfactory solution to the problem of unseen mass in MOND clusters. ; Comment: to appear in World Scientific, proceedings of DARK 2007