Tomography of Collisionless Stellar Systems
arXiv:astro-ph/9408027 · doi:10.1007/BF00692024
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.
BAP-06-1994-016-OAB. 7 pages, postscript file. In press on Celestial Mechanics