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Publications (16)

astro-ph.GA2022

Has JWST already falsified dark-matter-driven galaxy formation?

Moritz Haslbauer, Pavel Kroupa, Akram Hasani Zonoozi +1

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered several luminous high-redshift galaxy candidates with stellar masses of at photometric red…

astro-ph.GA2021

Fast galaxy bars continue to challenge standard cosmology

Mahmood Roshan, Neda Ghafourian, Tahere Kashfi +5

Many observed disc galaxies harbour a central bar. In the standard cosmological paradigm, galactic bars should be slowed down by dynamical friction from the dark matter halo. This…

astro-ph.GA2021

On the absence of backsplash analogues to NGC 3109 in the CDM framework

Indranil Banik, Moritz Haslbauer, Marcel S. Pawlowski +2

The dwarf galaxy NGC 3109 is receding 105 km/s faster than expected in a CDM timing argument analysis of the Local Group and external galaxy groups within 8 Mpc (Banik \& Zhao…

astro-ph.CO2020

The KBC void and Hubble tension contradict CDM on a Gpc scale Milgromian dynamics as a possible solution

Moritz Haslbauer, Indranil Banik, Pavel Kroupa

The KBC void is a local underdensity with the observed relative density contrast between 40 and 300 Mpc around the Local Group. If mass is…

astro-ph.GA2019

The Star Formation History and Dynamics of the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy Dragonfly 44 in MOND and MOG

Hosein Haghi, Vahid Amiri, Akram Hasani Zonoozi +3

The observed line-of-sight velocity dispersion of the ultra diffuse galaxy Dragonfly 44 (DF44) requires a Newtonian dynamical mass-to-light ratio of $M_{dyn}/L_I=26^{+7}…

astro-ph.CO2023

The many tensions with dark-matter based models and implications on the nature of the Universe

Pavel Kroupa, Eda Gjergo, Elena Asencio +6

(Abridged) Fundamental tensions between observations and dark-matter based cosmological models have emerged. This updated review has two purposes: to explore new tensions that have…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Magellanic Clouds are very rare in the IllustrisTNG simulations

Moritz Haslbauer, Indranil Banik, Pavel Kroupa +2

The Large and Small Magellanic Cloud (LMC and SMC) form the closest interacting galactic system to the Milky Way, therewith providing a laboratory to test cosmological models in th…

astro-ph.CO2023

A simultaneous solution to the Hubble tension and observed bulk flow within 250 Mpc

Sergij Mazurenko, Indranil Banik, Pavel Kroupa +1

The cold dark matter (CDM) standard cosmological model is in severe tension with several cosmological observations. Foremost is the Hubble tension, which exceeds con…

astro-ph.GA2022

The formation of early-type galaxies through monolithic collapse of gas clouds in Milgromian gravity

Robin Eappen, Pavel Kroupa, Nils Wittenburg +2

Studies of stellar populations in early-type galaxies (ETGs) show that the more massive galaxies form earlier and have a shorter star formation history (SFH). In this study, we inv…

astro-ph.GA2022

The High Fraction of Thin Disk Galaxies Continues to Challenge ΛCDM Cosmology

Moritz Haslbauer, Indranil Banik, Pavel Kroupa +2

Any viable cosmological framework has to match the observed proportion of early- and late-type galaxies. In this contribution, we focus on the distribution of galaxy morphological…

astro-ph.GA2023

The cosmological star formation history from the Local Cosmological Volume of galaxies and constraints on the matter homogeneity

Moritz Haslbauer, Pavel Kroupa, Tereza Jerabkova

The Lilly-Madau plot is commonly interpreted as the history of the cosmic star formation of the Universe by showing the co-moving star formation rate density (SFRD) over cosmic tim…

astro-ph.IM2021

The Phantom of RAMSES user guide for galaxy simulations using Milgromian and Newtonian gravity

Srikanth T. Nagesh, Indranil Banik, Ingo Thies +5

This document describes the general process of setting up, running, and analysing disc galaxy simulations using the freely available program Phantom of RAMSES (PoR). This implement…

astro-ph.GA2020

Constraints on the star formation histories of galaxies in the Local Cosmological Volume

Pavel Kroupa, Moritz Haslbauer, Indranil Banik +2

The majority of galaxies with current star-formation rates (SFRs), SFRo >= 10^-3 Msun/yr, in the Local Cosmological Volume where observations should be reliable, have the property…

astro-ph.GA2024

The effect of the environment-dependent stellar initial mass function on the photometric properties of star-forming galaxies

Moritz Haslbauer, Zhiqiang Yan, Tereza Jerabkova +3

(Abridged) Observational estimates of galaxy properties rely on the inherent galaxy-wide initial mass function (gwIMF), which systematically varies with the global SFR and metallic…

astro-ph.GA2019

The ultra-diffuse dwarf galaxies NGC 1052-DF2 and 1052-DF4 are in conflict with standard cosmology

Moritz Haslbauer, Indranil Banik, Pavel Kroupa +1

Recently van Dokkum et al. (2018b) reported that the galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 (DF2) lacks dark matter if located at Mpc from Earth. In contrast, DF2 is a dark-matter-dominated dwar…

astro-ph.GA2019

Galaxies lacking dark matter in the Illustris simulation

Moritz Haslbauer, Joerg Dabringhausen, Pavel Kroupa +2

(Abridged) Any viable cosmological model in which galaxies interact predicts the existence of primordial and tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs). In particular, in the standard model of co…