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I think one should run simulations of MOND first; MOND does not directly make a statement about rotational structures; it makes a statement about the gravity law. This galaxy clearly has unique structural considerations that could yield results that you don't expect from a trivial glance at higher order factors.

Edit, after digging: someone has, apparently.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336982682_A_new_for...

I can't speak to whether or not the paper is any good, but my quick understanding is that: the galaxy is consistent with MOND if the distance to the galaxy has been misestimated; at least one published estimate (that disagrees with most estimations) of how far it is to 1052 falls inside the range where it's explainable by mond. My (limited; I last took astro a very long time ago) understanding is that how we measure distances to foreign galaxies (slam-dunk methods like cepheids don't work if there are no cepheids) could be very sketchy for galaxies of different structures. Here is part of the ongoing debate about distance. Linked is a paper from the perspective that would disfavor MOND (the Trujillo estimate is what needs to be true for 1052 to be consistent with MOND according to the first paper):

https://www.pietervandokkum.com/ngc1052-df2



MOND has very little to say about gravity. It claims that f=ma breaks down at sufficiently low values. That, in turn, implies that the rules should still be consistent with these modifications, and that galaxies with apparently different proportions of dark matter (as it's understood) shouldn't exist - all galaxies with similar visible sizes and structures should be essentially identical in gravitational behaviour, and that simply hasn't been demonstrated to be the case.


> with similar visible sizes and structures

This galaxy is very much not in the normal range of "sizes and structures", and is highly dissimilar to almost all other galaxies observed.

the stuff about changing F=ma vs changing Fg is kind of pedantic and immaterial to the topic of simulation, given that the accleration due to gravity is the only thing that is being simulated.


I’ve linked above to a paper that attempts to establish what to rotational speed of the clusters should be based on MOND and it’s close enough to the observations that in isolation it still the case that the galaxy either has 1/400th of the dark matter density a normal galaxy would have vs we don’t need dark matter due to MOND.




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