Rotation curves of galactic disks for arbitrary surface density profiles: a simple and efficient recipe

Abstract

There is apparently a widespread belief that the gravitational field (and subsequently the rotation curve) ``inside'' razor-thin, axially symmetric disks can not be determined accurately from elliptic integrals because of the singular kernel in the Poisson integral. Here, we report a simple and powerful method to achieve this task numerically using the technique of ``density splitting''.

arXiv comment8 pages, Postscript, 1 figure, accepted in ApJ

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