A Mestel disk is a thin axisymmetric astrophysical disk with surface density inversely proportional to radius. Its galaxy rotation curve is exactly flat, , and despite its nonspherical geometry. In the Legendre expansion of thin-disk gravity, all positive-degree interior and exterior terms cancel. Its total mass is infinite, so only potential differences, rather than a potential zero at infinity, are defined.
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