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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. 6.

Baryonic Tully‐Fisher relation for various assumptions about the stellar mass‐to‐light ratio, as in Fig. 5. The observed baryonic mass of each galaxy, stars plus gas, is plotted against the asymptotic flat rotation velocity. The scatter in this global relation is minimized for MOND mass‐to‐light ratios. The line fit to this case (﹩M_{b}=50V^{4}_{\mathrm{flat}\,}﹩) is shown in the right panels. In the MOND panel it is shown as a solid line; in the other panels it is shown as a dashed line for reference. Note that colors are only available for 50 of the 74 galaxies, so not all cases appear in the popsynth panels.

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