On Rotation Curve Analysis

2018/02/14 by Kevin Kadowaki, Kadowaki, Kevin
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Geometry #Inertial Sensor and Navigation #Mathematics #Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics #Rotation (mathematics) #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1802.05940

arxiv created 2018/02/14 · openalex publication_date 2018/02/14 · arxiv updated 2018/02/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

An analysis of analytical methods used for computing galactic masses on the basis of rotation curves (Saari 2015) is shown to be flawed.

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