Galactic Rotation Curves and Linear Potential Laws
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We study the possibility that galactic rotation curves can be explained by a gravitational potential that contains a linear term as well as a Newtonian one. This hypothesis, suggested by conformal gravity, does allow good fits to the galactic rotation curves of the galaxies we study, which have a wide range of luminosities. However, the universality one might have expected of the parameter describing the strength of the linear potential does not emerge. Instead, a different regularity is seen.
10 pages of text; 2 pages of figures available from CEC (carlson@cebaf1.cebaf.gov) via post or e-mail
10 pages of text; 2 pages of figures available from CEC (carlson@cebaf1.cebaf.gov) via post or e-mail