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Additional material
Enrico Maria Corsini
Dipartimento di Astronomia
Università di Padova
Lectures of Astrophysics of Galaxies
Astromundus/Laurea Magistrale Astronomia
A.A. 2010-2011
Asymmetric drift
Disk heating
Mass density in the solar
neighborhood
Mass and anisotropy in
spherical systems
LOSVD: h4
tangential anisotropy h4<0
radial anisotropy h4>0
(R. Saglia)
LOSVD: h4
tangential anisotropy h4<0
radial anisotropy h4>0
(R. Saglia)
Logarithmic potential
qΦ = 0.95
qΦ = 0.7
Spheroidal components with
isotropic velocity dispersion
Rotation of elliptical galaxies