Modified Gravity Spins Up Galactic Halos

Abstract

We investigate the effect of modified gravity on the specific angular momentum of galactic halos by analyzing the halo catalogs at z=0 from high-resolution N-body simulations for a f(R) gravity model that meets the solar-system constraint. It is shown that the galactic halos in the f(R) gravity model tend to acquire significantly higher specific angular momentum than those in the standard LCDM model. The largest difference in the specific angular momentum distribution between these two models occurs for the case of the isolated galactic halos with mass less than 10^{11}M_sun/h, which are likely least shielded by the chameleon screening mechanism. As the specific angular momentum of galactic halos is rather insensitive to the other cosmological parameters, it can in principle be an independent discriminator of modified gravity. We speculate a possibility of using the relative abundance of the low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) as a test of GR given that the formation of the LSBGs befalls in the fast spinning dark halos.

Accepted for publication in ApJ, a result of the KS test added, discussion improved

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