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Caption: Fig. 9.
Plot of the Toomre stability parameter, Q, vs. radius for NGC 2523 and NGC 4245 using the velocity dispersion data from this paper. For NGC 2523, Q ranges from ﹩0.7\pm 0.1﹩ to ﹩1.6\pm 0.6﹩. For NGC 4245, Q ranges from ﹩0.6\pm 0.1﹩ to ﹩5.0\pm 0.7﹩.
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