Alternative Cosmology Group Newsletter - November 2006

Posted November 29, 2006

MOND theory and observations continue to be hot topics

MOND rotation curves of very low mass spiral galaxies
Authors: Mordehai Milgrom, Robert H. Sanders
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611494

An insight into the baryon-gravity relation in galaxies
Authors: Benoit Famaey, Gianfranco Gentile, Jean-Philippe Bruneton, HongSheng Zhao
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611132

Yet another negative result in the search for non-baryonic matter

A Telescope Search for Decaying Relic Axions
Authors: Daniel Grin, Giovanni Covone, Jean-Paul Kneib, Marc Kamionkowski, Andrew Blain, Eric Jullo
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611502

Galaxies at z=2.5 seem to be extremely dense, using expanding universe assumptions. (If the universe is not expanding, the linear scales of these galaxies are 6.5 times larger, eliminating the high density)

NICMOS Imaging of DRGs in the HDF-S: A Relation Between Star-Formation and Size at z ~ 2.5
Authors: Andrew W. Zirm (JHU), A. van der Wel (JHU), M. Franx (Leiden Observatory), I. Labbe (Carnegie Observatories), I. Trujillo (U of Nottingham), P. van Dokkum (Yale), S. Toft (ESO), E. Daddi (CEA/Saclay), G. Rudnick (NOAO), H.-W. Rix (MPIA), H.J.A. Rottgering (Leiden Observatory), P. van der Werf (Leiden Observatory)
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611245

More evidence on fractal structure of universe

Power law correlations in galaxy distribution and finite volume effects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Four
Authors: Francesco Sylos Labini, Nickolay L. Vasilyev, Yurij V. Baryshev
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610938

Confirmation that radio-loudness declines with redshift for QSOs. A good challenge to all explanations of QSO redshifts.

The Radio-Loud Fraction of Quasars is a Strong Function of Redshift and Optical Luminosity
Authors: Linhua Jiang, Xiaohui Fan, Zeljko Ivezic, Gordon T. Richards, Donald P. Schneider, Michael A. Strauss, Brandon C. Kelly
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611453

More analysis of WMAP alignments

The Axis of Evil revisited
Authors: Kate Land, Joao Magueijo
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611518

A revised discussion of the possibility of flat-space general relativity

The Possibility of Curved Spacetime, Black Holes, and Big Bang is Less than One Billionth
Author: Jin He
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512614