An integral representation for the Bessel function $K_\alpha$ for real $x>0$ is given by $$K_\alpha(x)=\frac{1}{2}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}e^{\alpha h(t)}dt$$ where $h(\alpha)=t-(\frac{x}{\alpha})\cosh t$
Do you know any reference where its shown that using some generalization of Laplace method $$K_\alpha(x)\sim(\frac{\pi}{2\alpha})^{\frac{1}{2}}(\frac{2\alpha}{ex})^\alpha$$ as $\alpha\rightarrow\infty$ ?
I have difficulties doing the calculation myself, first we cann see that the integrand has a maximum at $$t=\sinh^{-1}(\alpha/x)\sim\log(2\alpha/x)$$ which rises the idea using the substitution $t=\log(2\alpha/x)+c$ but I it does not help me.