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Does the Milky Way Have a Maximal Disk?

Does the Milky Way Have a Maximal Disk?

The Milky Way is often considered to be the best example of a spiral for which the dark matter not only dominates the outer kinematics but also plays a major dynamical role in the inner galaxy: the Galactic disk is therefore said to be "submaximal." This conclusion is important to …