Exponential-disk Keplerian asymptotic

ID: exponential-disk-keplerian-asymptotic

For an exponential galactic disk, the first nonspherical term in the Legendre expansion of thin-disk gravity is positive and proportional to in . The missing enclosed mass and exterior-ring terms are exponentially small at large radius. Hence the galaxy rotation curve approaches the point-mass Keplerian curve from above.

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