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Velocity-anisotropy parameter
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Velocity-anisotropy parameter
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2026-09-28
For spherical radial dispersion
σ
r
2
and total two-component tangential dispersion
σ
t
2
, the
velocity
-anisotropy
parameter
is
β
=
1
−
2
σ
r
2
σ
t
2
.
(1)
Positive values are radially biased, zero is isotropic, and negative values are tangentially biased.
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