Rotating Mestel disk distribution function

ID: rotating-mestel-disk-distribution-function

In the midplane Mestel disk potential , take specific energy and . A prograde galactic distribution function for , with , has surface density proportional to . Matching gives and
The denominator is the product of the full radial Gaussian integral and the positive-azimuthal half-line moment. Here is a squared-velocity scale, not a velocity dispersion itself. Changing the potential's additive constant changes . With positive exponent , must instead be the negative of the specific total energy.

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