https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2550-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Finslerian MOND versus the strong gravitational lensing of the early-type galaxies
1
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049, Beijing, China
2
Theoretical Physics Center for Science Facilities, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049, Beijing, China
* e-mail: linhn@ihep.ac.cn
Received:
14
June
2013
Revised:
17
July
2013
Published online:
31
August
2013
The gravitational lensing of Bullet Clusters and early-type galaxies pose serious challenges on the validity of MOND. Recently, Finslerian MOND, a generalization of MOND in the framework of Finsler gravity, has been proposed to explain the mass discrepancy problem of Bullet Cluster 1E0657-558. In this paper, we check the validity of the Finslerian MOND in describing the strong gravitational lensing of early-type galaxies. The investigation on ten strong lenses of the CASTLES samples shows that there is no strong evidence for the existence of dark matter.
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg and Società Italiana di Fisica, 2013
