Mass profiles and anisotropies of early-type galaxies

We discuss the problem of using stellar kinematics of early-type galaxies to constrain the orbital anisotropies and radial mass profiles of galaxies. We demonstrate that compressing the light distribution of a galaxy along the line of sight produces approximately the same signature in the line-of-si...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Magorrian, J, Ballantyne, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2001