Virial mass in DGP cosmology

TL;DR

This paper investigates whether the DGP brane-world gravity model can explain the virial mass discrepancy observed in galaxy clusters without invoking dark matter.

Contribution

It demonstrates that the DGP model can potentially account for the virial mass discrepancy in galaxy clusters, offering an alternative to dark matter explanations.

Findings

DGP model can address virial mass discrepancy

Potential to explain galaxy cluster mass without dark matter

Supports self-acceleration of the universe without dark energy

Abstract

In this proposal we study the problem of the virial mass discrepancy in the context of DGP brane gravity. DGP model is a kind of brane-world model such that the corrections to the usual gravity occurred in the large distance limit relative to the distance scale of the model defined as a ratio of the brane Planck scale to the bulk Planck scale. The extra dimension of this model is noncompact. This model is composed with an Einstein-Hilbert action in 5 dimensions plus an induced 4D action guarantees the existence of gravity on the brane. The importance of this model is that it can explain the self-acceleration of our universe without use of any type of dark energy. The virial mass discrepancy is an important problem in cosmology and it can be explained by dark matter. This is due to our various ways in measurement of the mass of the galaxy clusters. One of the ways we can measure the mass of a cluster of galaxies is to measure the galaxy masses and then add them up to obtain the cluster mass. Another way is to use the virial theorem. Almost in all clusters the virial mass is bigger than 20-30 times from the observed mass. In this proposal we show that the virial mass discrepancy can be addressed by the DGP model.