2009

On the separation between baryonic and dark matter: evidence for phantom dark matter?

Knebe, Alexander, Llinares, Claudio, Wu, Xufen et al.

Understand

The recent years have seen combined measurements of X-ray and (weak) lensing contours for colliding galaxy clusters such as, for instance, the famous "Bullet" cluster.

  • These observations have revealed offsets in the peaks of the baryonic and (dominant) gravitational matter component of order ~(100-200) kpc.
  • Such discrepancies are difficult to explain using modified theories for gravity other than dark matter.
  • Or are they not? Here we use the concept of "phantom dark matter" that is based upon a Newtonian interpretation of the MONDian gravitational potential.

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