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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 480, 期 2, 页码 1778-1795出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1578
关键词
gravitation; proper motions; binaries: general; dark matter
资金
- STFC studentship
The standard Lambda cold dark matter model based on general relativity (GR) including cold dark matter (DM) is very successful at fitting cosmological observations, but recent non-detections of candidate dark matter particles mean that various modified-gravity theories remain of significant interest. The latter generally involve modifications to GR below a critical acceleration scale similar to 10(-10) m s(-2). Wide-binary star systems with separations greater than or similar to 5 kau provide an interesting test for modified gravity, due to being in or near the low-acceleration regime and presumably containing negligible DM. Here, we explore the prospects for new observations pending from the GALA spacecraft to provide tests of GR against modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND)- or tensor-vector-scalar (TeVeS)-like theories in a regime only partially explored to date. In particular, we find that a histogram of (3D) binary relative velocities, relative to equilibrium circular velocity predicted from the (2D) projected separation, predicts a rather sharp feature in this distribution for standard gravity, with an 80th (90th) percentile value close to 1.025 (1.14) with rather weak dependence on the eccentricity distribution. However, MOND/TeVeS theories produce a shifted distribution, with a significant increase in these upper percentiles. In MOND-like theories without an external field effect, there are large shifts of order unity. With the external field effect included, the shifts are considerably reduced to similar to 0.04-0.08, but are still potentially detectable statistically given reasonably large samples and good control of contaminants. In principle, follow-up of GA/A-selected wide binaries with ground-based radial velocities accurate to less than or similar to 0.03 km s(-1) should be able to produce an interesting new constraint on modified-gravity theories.
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