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A common Milgromian acceleration scale in nature

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Fig. 1: Distribution of inclinations for all galaxies to be MONDian.
Fig. 2: The largest outlier in Table 1.

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Acknowledgements

I.B. and A.H.Z. are Alexander von Humboldt Fellows. H.H. is a DAAD visiting scholar. B.J. and J.D. are grateful for the hospitality of the SPODYR group in Bonn and of the AIfA, where this work was done. O.M. thanks the Swiss National Science Foundation for financial support. X.W. acknowledges support from the Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers 11503025 and 11421303), the Anhui Natural Science Foundation (grant number 1708085MA20), the Hundred Talents Project of Anhui Province and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. We thank the DAAD-Ostpartnerschaftsprogramm für 2018 at the University of Bonn for funding exchange visits between Charles University in Prague and Bonn University.

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

    Pavel Kroupa, Indranil Banik, Hosein Haghi & Akram Hasani Zonoozi

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

    Pavel Kroupa & Jörg Dabringhausen

  3. Scottish Universities’ Physics Alliance, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK

    Indranil Banik & Hongsheng Zhao

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

    Hosein Haghi & Akram Hasani Zonoozi

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

    Behnam Javanmardi

  6. Departement Physik, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Oliver Müller

  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. devised and wrote the manuscript and I.B. devised the selection criteria. A.H.Z. and H.H. calculated the rotation curve models. X.W. and H.Z. contributed MOND expertise. O.M., B.J. and J.D. contributed observational expertise on galaxies. All co-authors significantly contributed through comments and passages.

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Kroupa, P., Banik, I., Haghi, H. et al. A common Milgromian acceleration scale in nature. Nat Astron 2, 925–926 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-018-0622-x

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