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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 151301 (2007) [4 pages]

Analysis of Rotation Curves in the Framework of the Gravitational Suppression Model

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Christiane Frigerio Martins and Paolo Salucci*
Astroparticle, Astrophysics Sectors, SISSA, Via Beirut 4, 34014 Trieste, Italy

Received 1 November 2006; revised 23 January 2007; published 12 April 2007

We present an analysis of suitable rotation curves (RCs) of eight galaxies, aimed at checking the consistency and universality of the gravitational suppression (GraS) hypothesis, a phenomenological model for a new interaction between dark matter and baryons. Motivated by the puzzle of the core versus cusp distribution of dark matter in the center of halos, this hypothesis claims to reconcile the predictions from N-body Λ cold dark matter simulations with kinematic observations. The GraS model improves the kinematic fitting residuals, but the mass parameters are unphysical and put the theory in difficulty.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.151301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.151301
PACS:
95.35.+d, 04.50.+h, 98.62.Gq

*Electronic address: martins,salucci@sissa.it