Does the galaxy NGC1052–DF2 falsify Milgromian dynamics?

Galaxy Dynamics

Does a Galaxy Fly?

Disk galaxies in a cluster of galaxies are moving in hot gas filling the cluster. Generally, they are moving at transonic or supersonic velocities. If ram-pressure stripping is insufficient to destroy the gas disk, the galaxies should be affected by the wind of the surrounding hot gas similar to an airfoil. In this paper, I consider whether the aerodynamic interaction can be strong enough to fo...

Elliptical Galaxy Dynamics: the Issues Pertaining to Galaxy Formation

How elliptical galaxy dynamics relate to galaxy structure, stellar populations, spiral galaxies and environment are reviewed. The evidence assembled shows that most, if not all, galaxies originally classified as gE contain disks within them. Taken together, the existing evidence are most consistent with the gravitational, hierarchical, clustering, merging (HCM) concept that all galaxies, includ...

Galaxy groups and the modified dynamics

I estimate Modified-Dynamics (MOND), median M/L values for recently published catalogues of galaxy groups. While the median, Newtonian M/L values quoted for these catalogues are (110 − 200)h75(M/L) , the corresponding values for MOND are less than 10 (M/L) (where the mass includes contributions from galactic, and intra-group gas). Subject headings: Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Cosmology: ...

Probing the Environment with Galaxy Dynamics

I present various projects to study the halo dynamics of elliptical galaxies. This allows one to study the outer mass and orbital distributions of ellipticals in different environments, and the inner distributions of groups and clusters themselves.