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Dark matter tensions on the scale of galaxies

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Dark matter tensions on the scale of galaxies

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Academic year 2021/2022

Teachers
Antonaldo Diaferio
Luisa Ostorero
Degree course
PhD in Physics
Teaching period
Second semester
Type
Distinctive, Related or integrative
Credits/Recognition
4
Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
FIS/05 - astronomy and astrophysics
Delivery
Traditional
Language
Italian
Attendance
Obligatory
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Sommario del corso

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Course objectives

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Program

In the first part of the course, we illustrate some kinematic properties of disk and dwarf galaxies, including the acceleration scale, the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation, and the galaxy disk stability, that hardly fit within the currently standard Cold Dark Matter model. Over the years, a number of ad hoc modifications to this model have been proposed to solve some of these tensions.

In the second part of the course, we show that, in epistemology, this approach is called degenerating problemshift. This condition might prelude to a substantial scientific revolution. In fact, most of these tensions are actually novel predictions in a different theory proposed in 1983, called Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). The observed kinematic properties were indeed predicted by this model years in advance of their discovery, as expected in a sound progressive theory.

Suggested readings and bibliography

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David Merritt, A Philosophical Approach to MOND, Cambridge University Press

Robert H. Sanders, The Dark matter Problem: A Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press



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Notes

The students who wish to attend the course are invited to register by using the register flag below at their earliest convenience.

The language of the course can be English upon request.

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    30/04/2022 at 23:55
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