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Does the galaxy NGC1052–DF2 falsify Milgromian dynamics?

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Fig. 1: MOND velocity dispersion and external field.

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  1. Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Pavel Kroupa, Hosein Haghi & Akram Hasani Zonoozi

  2. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Astronomical Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

    Pavel Kroupa & Jörg Dabringhausen

  3. Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Department of Physics, Zanjan, Iran

    Hosein Haghi & Akram Hasani Zonoozi

  4. School of Astronomy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran

    Behnam Javanmardi

  5. Departement Physik, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Oliver Müller

  6. Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, University of Saint Andrews, Saint Andrews, UK

    Indranil Banik & Hongsheng Zhao

  7. CAS Key Laboratory for Research in Galaxies and Cosmology, Department of Astronomy, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

    Xufen Wu

  8. School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

    Xufen Wu

  9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, LaserLaB, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Hongsheng Zhao

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P.K. conceived the work and wrote the manuscript; H.H. and A.H.Z. performed the external field effect calculations; O.M. and B.J. contributed observational expertise on galaxies; I.B., X.W. and H.Z. contributed MOND expertise; J.D. contributed dwarf galaxy expertise. All co-authors contributed to the manuscript with comments and passages.

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Kroupa, P., Haghi, H., Javanmardi, B. et al. Does the galaxy NGC1052–DF2 falsify Milgromian dynamics?. Nature 561, E4–E5 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0429-z

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