The Gravito-Electromagnetic Approximation to the Gravimagnetic Dipole and its Velocity Rotation Curve
(2023) Classical and Quantum Gravity — (2023)
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Govaerts, Jan 
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- In view of the observed flat rotation curves of spiral galaxies and motivated by the simple fact that within newtonian gravity a stationary axisymmetric mass distribution or dark matter vortex of finite extent readily displays a somewhat flattened out velocity rotation curve up to distances comparable to the extent of such a vortex transverse to the galaxy's disk, the possibility that such a flattening out of rotation curves may rather be a manifestation of some stationary axisymmetric space-time curvature of purely gravitational character, without the need of some dark matter particles, is considered in the case of the gravimagnetic dipole carrying opposite NUT charges and in the tensionless limit of its Misner string, as an exact vacuum solution to Einstein's equations. Aiming for a first assessment of the potential of such a suggestion easier than a full fledged study of its geodesics, the situation is analysed within the limits of weak field gravito-electromagnetism and nonrelativistic dynamics. Thereby leading indeed to interesting and encouraging results.
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Govaerts, J. (2023). The Gravito-Electromagnetic Approximation to the Gravimagnetic Dipole and its Velocity Rotation Curve. Classical and Quantum Gravity. Accepted/in-press. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/acc22d (Original work published 2023)