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The Mass Discrepancy–Acceleration Relation: Disk Mass and the Dark Matter Distribution

  • Authors: Stacy S. McGaugh

McGaugh 2004 The Astrophysical Journal 609 652.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 3.

Local residuals of MOND rotation curve fits. Each filled circle represents one resolved point within each galaxy; the data for all galaxies are shown together. The top panel shows the data for 74 galaxies comprising a total of 1145 independent points. In the bottom panel, the data are restricted to individual data points within each galaxy with velocities measured to better than 5% accuracy, as in Fig. 2. A total of 736 independent points from 60 galaxies survive this cut. The places where the fits are imperfect tend to be where the measurements are least accurate. In general, the quality of the fits improves with the quality of the data.
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