Radial Acceleration Relation in Rotationally Supported Galaxies

Stacy S McGaugh1, Federico Lelli1, James M Schombert2

  • 1Department of Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|November 26, 2016
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