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Trends with distance from the galactic center. The left and right panels respectively show the medians (solid curves) and the 16th–84th percentile ranges (shaded regions) for the average radial velocity (Vr, in units of Vrot) and the radial mass flux (Fr, in units of ℳ/tdyn) as functions of r (in units of Rd) derived from our sample of disk galaxies. The median values of both Vr and Fr are consistently negative and become more negative with increasing r, except within approximately ∼0.2 Rd, where the trend reverses. Although the 84th percentile values of both Fr and Vr are positive at all radii, the magnitudes at the 16th percentile are substantially larger. Therefore, statistically speaking, the radial transport of cold gas across our sample is dominated by inflows at all radii.

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