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Caption: Figure 9.
(a) Logarithm of surface density in the outer disk of NGC 7793. Filled circles are data from Puche et al. (1990); the solid line is a linear fit to these data points. (b) Same as (a), but for rotational velocity. (c) Epicyclic frequency derived from the velocity curve in (b). (d) Surface density. (e) Toomre Q parameter.
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