Oblate tensor-virial shape factor
ID: oblate-tensor-virial-shape-factor
For a finite stationary axisymmetric self-gravitating system with similar oblate density surfaces, let , , , and . Its stellar potential-energy tensor has ; the common radial integral cancels. The spherical limit has and . With mass-weighted in-plane velocity dispersion and constant azimuthal streaming , the tensor virial theorem gives , where . Neither nor the omission of the Cartesian streaming factor is exact.
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