 Moment of inertia of a polytropic star

For a spherical stellar polytrope, the axial moment of inertia is $I=(8\pi /3){\int }_0^R\rho (r)r^{4}dr$. With Lane-Emden variables for a stellar polytrope, first zero ${\xi }_1$ and Lane-Emden surface mass constant ${\omega }_n$, its dimensionless form isA polytrope of index zero gives $2/5$, while a polytrope of index one gives $(2/3)(1-6/{\pi }^2)$. The latter is smaller because more of the mass lies near the center. The scalar second mass moment $\int r^{2}dm$ is $3I/2$, not the axial moment of inertia.