Galactic Sun's motion in the cold dark matter, MOdified Newtonian Dynamics and modified gravity scenarios
✍ Scribed by L. Iorio
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 222 KB
- Volume
- 330
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-6337
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✦ Synopsis
We numerically integrate the equations of motion of the Sun in Galactocentric Cartesian rectangular coordinates for -4.5 Gyr ≤ t ≤ 0 in Newtonian mechanics with two different models for the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) halo, in MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and in MOdified Gravity (MOG) without resorting to CDM. The initial conditions used come from the latest kinematical determination of the 3D Sun's motion in the Milky Way (MW) by assuming for the rotation speed of the Local Standard of Rest (LSR) the recent value Θ0 = 268 km s -1 and the IAU recommended value Θ0 = 220 km s -1 ; the Sun is assumed located at 8.5 kpc from the Galactic Center (GC). For Θ0 = 268 km s -1 the birth of the Sun, 4.5 Gyr ago, would have occurred at large Galactocentric distances (12-27 kpc depending on the model used), while for Θ0 = 220 km s -1 it would have occurred at about 8.8-9.3 kpc for almost all the models used. The integrated trajectories are far from being circular, especially for Θ0 = 268 km s -1 , and differ each other with the CDM models yielding the widest spatial extensions for the Sun's orbital path.