In this paper the concept of tomography of a collisionless stellar system of general shape is introduced, and a generalization of the Projected Virial Theorem is obtained. Applying the tomographic procedure we then derive a new family of virial equations which coincides with the already known ones for spherically symmetric systems. This result is obtained without any use of explicit expressions for the line-of-sight velocity dispersion, or spherical coordinate system. © 1994 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
ciotti, l. (1994). Tomography of collisionless stellar systems. CELESTIAL MECHANICS & DYNAMICAL ASTRONOMY, 60(4), 401-407 [10.1007/BF00692024].
Tomography of collisionless stellar systems
ciotti, l.
1994
Abstract
In this paper the concept of tomography of a collisionless stellar system of general shape is introduced, and a generalization of the Projected Virial Theorem is obtained. Applying the tomographic procedure we then derive a new family of virial equations which coincides with the already known ones for spherically symmetric systems. This result is obtained without any use of explicit expressions for the line-of-sight velocity dispersion, or spherical coordinate system. © 1994 Kluwer Academic Publishers.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
