Inclination projection of an axisymmetric stellar velocity tensor
ID: inclination-projection-of-an-axisymmetric-stellar-velocity-tensor
For an axisymmetric random velocity dispersion tensor with and , contracting with the line-of-sight unit vector gives the displayed mass-weighted velocity dispersion. A major-axis rotation amplitude projects as . By contrast, an azimuthally averaged line-of-sight streaming root-mean-square is when is the full in-plane streaming mean square. Aperture weights and the definition of the measured rotation statistic must match the intrinsic statistic.
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