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    English: A galaxy rotation curve is a plot of the orbital speeds of visible stars or gas versus their radial distance from the galactic center.
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    1. ↑ McGaugh, Stacy S. (2018-08-01). "A Precise Milky Way Rotation Curve Model for an Accurate Galactocentric Distance". Research Notes of the AAS 2 (3): 156. DOI:10.3847/2515-5172/aadd4b. ISSN 2515-5172.
    2. ↑ (2007-12-10). "Milky Way Kinematics. I. Measurements at the Subcentral Point of the Fourth Quadrant". The Astrophysical Journal 671 (1): 427–438. DOI:10.1086/522297. ISSN 0004-637X.
    3. ↑ (2016-11-10). "MILKY WAY KINEMATICS. II. A UNIFORM INNER GALAXY H i TERMINAL VELOCITY CURVE". The Astrophysical Journal 831 (2): 124. DOI:10.3847/0004-637X/831/2/124. ISSN 0004-637X.
    4. ↑ (2019-01-20). "The Circular Velocity Curve of the Milky Way from 5 to 25 kpc". The Astrophysical Journal 871 (1): 120. DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/aaf648. ISSN 0004-637X.
    5. ↑ McGaugh, Stacy S. (2019-11-01). "The Imprint of Spiral Arms on the Galactic Rotation Curve". The Astrophysical Journal 885 (1): 87. DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/ab479b. ISSN 0004-637X.
    6. ↑ (2017-02-21). "Dynamical modelling of the galactic bulge and bar: the Milky Way's pattern speed, stellar and dark matter mass distribution". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 465 (2): 1621–1644. DOI:10.1093/mnras/stw2819. ISSN 0035-8711.
    7. ↑ (2019-11-10). "Trigonometric Parallaxes of High-mass Star-forming Regions: Our View of the Milky Way". The Astrophysical Journal 885 (2): 131. DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a11. ISSN 0004-637X.
    8. ↑ (2022-08-29). "Milky Way mass with K giants and BHB stars using LAMOST, SDSS/SEGUE, and Gaia : 3D spherical Jeans equation and tracer mass estimator". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 516 (1): 731–748. DOI:10.1093/mnras/stac2036. ISSN 0035-8711.
    9. ↑ (2020). "The mass of our Milky Way". Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy 63 (10). DOI:10.1007/s11433-019-1541-6. ISSN 1674-7348.
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    A galaxy rotation curve is a plot of the orbital speeds of visible stars or gas versus their radial distance from the galactic center.

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