Disk galaxies and their dark halos as self-organized patterns

Abstract

Galaxies are built by complex physical processes with significant inherent stochasticity. It is therefore surprising that the inferred dark matter distributions in galaxies are strongly correlated with the observed baryon distributions leading to various `Baryon-Halo conspiracies'. The fact that no dark matter candidate has been definitively identified invites a search for alternative explanations for such correlations and we present an approach motivated by the behaviors of self organized patterns. We propose a nonlocal relativistic Lagrangian theory for a `pattern field' which acts as an `effective dark matter', built on the idea that defects in this pattern field couple to the baryonic matter distribution. Our theory accounts for the gross structure of cold disk galaxies. We compute galactic rotation curves and derive various galaxy scaling relations including Renzo's rule, the radial acceleration relation, and the existence of the Freeman limit for central surface brightness.

arXiv comment8 pages, 4 figures

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