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</script>Galaxy groups, which have hardly been looked at in MOND, afford probing the acceleration discrepancies in regions of system-parameter space that are not accessible in well-studied galactic systems, such as galaxies, galaxy clusters, and dwarf-spheroidal satellites of galaxies. Groups are typically the size of galaxy-cluster cores, but have masses typically only a few times that of a single galaxy. Accelerations in groups get far below those in galaxies, and far below the MOND acceleration. So much so, that many groups might be affected by the external-field effect, which is unique to MOND, due to background accelerations. Here, I analyze the MOND dynamics of 53 galaxy groups, recently catalogued in 3 lists. Their Newtonian, K-band, dynamical $M/L$ ratios are a few tens to several hundreds solar units, with $\langle{M_d/L_K}\rangle= (56, 25, 30)~M_{\odot}/L_{\odot}$, respectively for the 3 lists; thus evincing very large acceleration discrepancies. I find here that MOND requires dynamical $M_M/L_K$ values of order $1~M_{\odot}/L_{\odot}$, with $\langle{M_M/L_K}\rangle=(0.8, 0.56, 1.0) ~M_{\odot}/L_{\odot}$, for the 3 lists, which are in good agreement with population-synthesis stellar values, and with those found in individual galaxies. MOND thus accounts for the observed dynamics in those groups with baryons alone, and no need for dark matter -- an important extension of MOND analysis from galaxies to galactic systems, which, to boot, have characteristic sizes of several hundred kiloparsecs, and accelerations much lower than probed before -- only a few percent of MOND's $a_0$. The acceleration discrepancies evinced by these groups thus conform to the deep-MOND prediction: $g\approx (g_Na_0)^{1/2}$, down to these very low accelerations ($g$ is the measured, and $g_N$ the baryonic, Newtonian acceleration).
5 text pages and 3 Tables. Added Figures and references, and expanded discussion. Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
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