Speaker
Description
Electromagnetism is one of the pillars of modern physics and until very recently was nature’s sole
messenger. The avenue of multi-messenger astronomy in the recent year is opening a whole
new world of observations and promises great advances for science, but nonetheless still relies
on electromagnetic waves as a core component.
Extended theories of electromagnetism impact thus directly our observations and interpretations
of astrophysical phenomena as they modify the core ingredient in our measurements. Extended
models where non-linear interactions (notably photon-background EM field) occur, exhibit a viola-
tion of the conservation of their energy momentum tensor, regardless of the nature of the model
(massive , SME, Non-linear etc). Said violations hints towards the loss of translational symmetry
and by extension that frequencies are not necessarily conserved. This lead us to describe what
we will call frequency shifts that are usually due to the passage of a radiation in an external non-
dynamical electromagnetic field. These effects while very small on a local scale, could lead to
non negligible effects on larger ones.
In this presentation, we will consider these effects on a galactic scale and attempt to shed a new
light on the issue of excess velocities in galaxies, and offer an alternative/complementary descrip-
tion to the dark matter/modified gravity paradigms. We will notably highlight a correlation between
additional velocities and magnetic fields within galaxies and then derive a path from modified
Maxwellian models to a contribution of magnetic origin to the observed velocities for galaxies. We
will conclude by discussing two possible mechanisms that would explain such a contribution.
