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    High School Understand Bonnar-Ebert Model: Complement to Jeans Law?

    I'll not be a great help but your question deserves an answer. They are complementary and both are concerned with simplistic assumptions about self-gravitation but from different perspectives. Jeans gets you in the ballpark by considering the dispersion of sound in a homogenous medium...
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    High School What is the mass distribution and rotation curve of galaxy IC1101?

    Buckethead, The eighth result on this list is exactly what you are looking for. The full list is for as deep as you want to go. https://arxiv.org/search/?query=Abell+2029&searchtype=abstract&source=header
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    Undergrad Why are all quarks considered fundamental?

    The products of a fundamental interaction does not indicate the building blocks of those particles but one result of their interaction.