Heliocentric projection of a spherical velocity dispersion

For a non-streaming spherical tracer population, the line of sight makes angle $\chi$ with the Galactocentric radial direction. The projected velocity dispersion iswhere ${\sigma }_t^2$ is one tangential variance and $\beta =1-{\sigma }_t^2/{\sigma }_r^2$ is the velocity-anisotropy parameter. At a fixed radius, averaging with the observational angular weights gives ${\sigma }_{\odot }={\sigma }_r\sqrt{1-\beta A}$, where $A=⟨{\sin }^2\chi ⟩$.

For tracers sampled uniformly on a Galactocentric shell of radius $r$, with the Sun at radius $R_{\odot }$, the correction in the heliocentric projection of a spherical velocity dispersion isThe limiting value at $r=R_{\odot }$ is $1/2$; it tends to $2/3$ as $r/R_{\odot }\to 0$ and to $2R_{\odot }^2/(3r^2)$ at large radius. Uniform heliocentric solid angle at fixed $r>R_{\odot }$ instead gives $A=2R_{\odot }^2/(3r^2)$ exactly. Specify the selection measure when applying the correction.