Figure 23

Figure 23: Residuals of MOND fits to the rotation curves of 78 nearby galaxies (all data to which authors have access) including about two thousand individual resolved measurements. Data for 21 galaxies are either new or improved in terms of spatial resolution and velocity accuracy over those in [401]. More accurate points are illustrated with larger symbols. The histogram of residuals is plotted on the right panel, and is well fitted by a Gaussian of width Δv ∕v ∼ 0.04. The bulk of the more accurate data are in good accord with MOND. There are a few deviant points, mostly at small radii where non-circular motions are ubiquitous and observational resolution (beam smearing) can be a challenge. These are but a few trees outlying from a very clear forest.