Observational tests and theoretical developments of hybrid MOND dark matter models

  • The putative effects of dark matter are most easily explained by a collisionless fluid on cosmological scales and by Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) on galactic scales. Hybrid MOND dark matter models combine the successes of dark matter on cosmological scales and those of MOND on galactic scales. An example of such a model is superfluid dark matter (SFDM) which postulates that this differing behavior with scale is caused by a single underlying substance with two phases. In this thesis, I highlight successful observational tests of SFDM regarding strong lensing and the Milky Way rotation curve. I also discuss three problems due to the double role of the aforementioned single underlying substance and show how these may be avoided. Finally, I introduce a novel Cherenkov radiation constraint for hybrid MOND dark matter models. This constraint is different from standard modified gravity Cherenkov radiation constraints because such hybrid models allow even non-relativistic objects like stars to emit Cherenkov radiation.

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Author:Tobias Mistele
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-680186
DOI:https://doi.org/10.21248/gups.68018
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Referee:Marcus BleicherORCiDGND, Horst StöckerORCiDGND
Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2022/04/05
Year of first Publication:2021
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Granting Institution:Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Date of final exam:2022/04/19
Release Date:2022/05/17
Page Number:149
HeBIS-PPN:494757302
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht