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Caption: Figure 3.
Methods of Potential instances in galpy, illustrated using a double-exponential disk potential with ln ρ(R, z) = −R/hr − |z|/hz + constant, normalized to have a circular velocity of 1 at R = 1. All of the outputs are in natural units (see Section 2.2). The flattening is defined as
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