Tomography of Collisionless Stellar Systems
Astrophysics
2009-10-22 v1
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9408027,
title = {Tomography of Collisionless Stellar Systems},
author = {L. Ciotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9408027},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
BAP-06-1994-016-OAB. 7 pages, postscript file. In press on Celestial Mechanics