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Exponential-disk Keplerian asymptotic (vc2​=GM/R[1+9Rd2​/(2R2)+O(R−4)])

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For an exponential galactic disk, the first nonspherical term in the Legendre expansion of thin-disk gravity is positive and proportional to R−3 in vc2​. 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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