Rotation and anisotropy of galaxies revisited
The use of the tensor virial theorem (TVT) as a diagnostic of anisotropic velocity distributions in galaxies is revisited. The TVT provides a rigorous global link between velocity anisotropy, rotation and shape, but the quantities appearing in it are not easily estimated observationally. Traditional...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
2005
|